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DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE 


OF  THE 


GLUCK    COLLECTION 


OF 


Manuscripts  and  Autographs 


IN  THE 


BUFFALO  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


BUFFALO 


July  1899 


Copyright,  iSgg,  by 
H.  L.  ELMENDORF,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y. 


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PREFACE 


JAMES  FRASER  GLUCK,  who  gave  the  Buffalo  Library  the  manu- 
scripts and  autographs  catalogued  in  this  volume,  was  born  at  Niag- 
ara Falls,  N.  Y.,  April  28,  1852.  He  attended  the  common  schools, 
Upper  Canada  College,  at  Toronto,  and  Cornell  University,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1874.  He  studied  law  with  Laning  &  Willett  in 
Buffalo,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1876.  July  15,  1877,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Efifie  D.  Tyler,  a  daughter  of  Prof.  Charles  M.  Tyler  of 
Cornell.  He  was  elected  a  trustee  of  Cornell  in  1883,  curator  of  the 
Buffalo  Library  in  1885,  and  trustee  of  the  Grosvenor  Library  in  the 
same  year.  He  died  at  the  Murray  Hill  Hotel,  New  York,  December 
15,  1897,  in  his  forty -sixth  year. 

This  brief  biographical  sketch  gives  merely  the  dates  of  the  prin- 
cipal events  in  Mr.  Gluck's  short  life.  He  was  an  able  and  successful 
lawyer,  a  brilliant  orator,  a  writer  of  authority  on  law  subjects,  and  a 
man  of  great  literary  ability,  culture  and  taste.  He  took  an  active  part 
in  every  movement  for  the  social  and  educational  improvement  of 
Buffalo.  He  was  particularly  interested  in  the  founding  of  the  Public 
Library,  and  his  influence  contributed  largely  to  its  establishment. 

It  was  in  1885  that  Mr.  Gluck  first  became  interested  in  the  collec- 
tion of  autographs  and  manuscripts.  He  was  at  that  time  a  curator 
of  the  Buffalo  Library.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Mr. 
Larned,  the  Superintendent  of  the  library,  called  attention  to  the  auto- 
graph manuscript  of  Robert  Fulton,  which  was  offered  for  sale  in  the 
catalogue  of  the  London  "Old  Book-Dealer"  at  a  moderate  price. 
Mr.  Larned  gave  it  as  his  opinion  that  if  the  library  could  indulge  in 
the  luxury  of  buying  any  curious  and  interesting  things  for  exhibition,  it 

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PREFA  CE. 

would  be  a  very  desirable  thing  to  do.  After  some  talk  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  board,  Mr.  Gluck  said  :  "I  will  buy  it  and  present  it  to  the 
library."  The  Fulton  manuscript  was  found  to  have  been  sold  before 
the  order  for  it  reached  London,  but  soon  afterward  Mr.  Gluck  began 
to  secure  other  manuscripts  of  interest  and  value,  and  his  zeal  for  col- 
lecting grew  with  the  growth  of  the  treasures  as  they  accumulated. 
During  the  next  two  years  he  devoted  most  of  his  leisure  time  to  this 
work,  which  involved  frequent  journeys  to  New  York  and  Boston  and 
correspondence  and  personal  conference  with  authors,  publishers  and 
dealers.  Mr.  Gluck  obtained  the  first  choice  from  the  large  collection 
of  autograph  manuscripts  gathered  by  Mr.  James  R.  Osgood,  and  also  a 
large  number  from  the  sale  of  the  Sir  William  Hamilton  collection  in 
London.  Many  of  the  most  valuable  manuscripts  Avere  obtained  directly 
from  their  authors  upon  Mr.  Gluck's  representation  to  them  of  the  pur- 
pose he  had  in  view,  of  giving  them  to  the  library.  Several  American 
publishers,  including  the  Century  Company,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
Harper  &  Bros.,  Roberts  Brothers,  James  Redpath  of  the  North  American 
Review,  Lorrettus  Metcalf  of  the  Forum,  and  others,  interested  them- 
selves in  Mr.  Gluck's  undertaking  and  furnished,  with  the  consent  of  the 
authors,  valuable  manuscripts  otherwise  not  procurable. 

January  7,  1887,  Mr.  Gluck  presented  his  collection  to  the  Buffalo 
Library  with  a  type-written  list  and  description  of  the  manuscripts. 
At  this  early  date  Mr.  J.  N.  Larned  pronounced  the  collection  the 
largest  and  most  valuable  owned  by  any  public  institution  in  this  coun- 
try. During  the  ten  years  following  the  original  gift  Mr.  Gluck 
continued  his  collecting,  and,  on  May  18,  1897,  made  a  second  gift  to 
the  library  of  almost  equal  value  with  his  first  presentation.  This  addi- 
tional gift  was  given  upon  the  express  conditions  : 

1st.  That  the  board  designate  the  room  on  the  first  floor  in 
the  southwest  corner  of  the  Buffalo  Library  building,  at  the  corner 
of  Washington  and  Clinton  streets,  as  the  specific  place  for  this 
collection. 

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PREFA  CE. 

2d.  That  the  board  furnish  proper  cases,  labels,  frames,  etc.,  to 
protect,  preserve  and  worthily  present  such  collection  to  the  public. 

3d.  That  a  proper  catalogue  be  printed  which  shall  describe  the 
specific  items  of  the  collection,  and  which  shall  be  at  all  times  available 
for  the  use  of  this  public. 

Should  the  above  conditions  fail  to  be  carried  out,  the  collection 
be  shifted  into  another  room,  or  the  collection  fail  to  be  protected  from 
dust,  or  care  and  attention  not  be  given  to  the  proper  preservation  of 
the  manuscripts  or  autographs,  or  the  catalogue  be  suffered  to  be  unavail- 
able or  out  of  print  and  not  be  reprinted  within  the  period  of  one  year, 
then  the  entire  collection  to  revert  to  Cornell  University  and  become 
the  property  of  that  institution. 

May  19,  1897,  by  formal  resolutions  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  the 
Buffalo  Library  accepted  Mr.  Gluck's  conditions  and  thanked  him  for 
his  munificent  gift. 

This  catalogue  is  published  in  compliance  with  the  terms  of  the 
gift,  and  therefore  the  very  valuable  manuscripts  given  to  the  library  by 
other  friends  are  merely  listed  and  not  catalogued  or  described. 

The  catalogue  is  made,  under  direction  of  the  Board,  by  Mrs. 
H.  L.  Elmendorf.  In  its  preparation  the  aid  and  counsel  Mr.  Gluck 
would  have  given  have  been  sadly  missed.  Many  interesting  items  which 
he  could  have  supplied  as  to  the  history  of  the  manuscripts  and  the  cir- 
cumstances under  which  he  acquired  them  have  had  to  be  omitted. 

Where  the  manuscripts  or  letters  have  already  appeared  in  print 
they  have  not,  as  a  rule,  been  reproduced  here,  reference  being  given 
to  where  they  may  be  found  in  print.  Whenever  the  manuscript  differs 
materially  from  the  printed  text,  the  variation  is  noted.  Those  not 
found  to  have  been  published  are  printed,  where  their  interest  seemed 
to  warrant  it,  unless,  as  in  the  case  of  some  of  the  letters,  the  contents 
is  entirely  private. 

Buffalo  Public  Library, 
July  1,   1899. 


Descriptive    Catalogue 


OF     THE 


GLUCK  COLLECTION  OF  MANUSCRIPTS  AND 

AUTOGRAPHS  IN  THE  BUFFALO 

PUBLIC   LIBRARY 


Alcott,  Amos  Bronson,  American  educator  and  philosopher,  born  in 
Wolcott,  Conn.,  29  November,  1799,  died  at  Concord,  Mass., 
4  March,  1888. 

Manuscript  of  the  poem  "Carmen  auguratum  auspicans ;  a 
prophetic  ode  after  sacrifice,  25  September,  1881,"  one  of  the 
many  poems  inspired  by  the  death  of  Garfield,  it  is  included  in 
k\coVC%  Son7iets  and  Canzonets  [821.1   A355.s]. 


Alcott,  Miss  Louisa  May,  American  author,  daughter  of  Amos  Bron- 
son Alcott,  born  in  Germantown,  Pa.,  29  November,  1832,  died 
at  Concord,  Mass.,  6  March,  1888. 

Manuscript  of  "Sophie's  secret,"  a  story  first  published  in 
the  St.  Nicholas  for  November  and  December,  1883,  volume  11, 
Pt.  1,  pages  25,  114;  afterward  included  in  volume  three  of 
Lulu' s  Library  [jA  355 — 9]  . 

Autograph  copy  of  a  poem,  "To  my  father,  on  his  86th 
birthday,"  29  November,  1885,  published  \n  Louisa  May  Alcott, 
her  life y  letters  and  Journals,  page  387  [928.1    Al  18]. 


Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,  American  poet  and  novelist,  born  in  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  11  November,  1836. 

Two    letters,  dated    editorial    office    of    the    Atlantic   Monthly, 
Boston,  November  7  and  November  19,  1885,  to  Mr.  Gluck.     In 

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one  of  the  letters  the  poet  promises  to  copy  "  Baby  Bell  "  for  the 
collection,  which  promise  he  afterward  fulfilled,  as  will  be  seen  by 
the  next  entry. 

Autograph   copy   of    the   poem    "Baby    Bell,"    first    published 
in  1856,  included  in  his  Poems  [821.1  A3652— 1]. 


Allison,  John,  American  statesman,  born  at  Beaver,  Beaver  Co.,  Pa., 
register  of  the  United  States  treasury  from  1  April,  1869,  until  his 
death,  in  Washington,  D.  C,  23  March,  1878. 

Signature    to  treasury  warrant    for  twenty-four  cents,  issued    to 
F.  C.  Harris,  12  June,  1873. 


Ames,  Mary  Clemmer,  Mrs.  Daniel  Ames,  afterward  Mrs.  Edmund 
Hudson,  American  author,  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.,  in  1839,  died 
in  Washington,  18  August,  1884. 

Letter,  dated  89  Clinton  PL,  New  York,  3  June,  1863,  to  Theo- 
dore Tilton.  The  letter  is  concerned  with  some  arrangements  for 
occasional  contributions  to  the  Independent. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Geo.  E.  Ferine  &  Co.  from  a  photograph. 


Anthony,   Miss  Susan  Brownell,   American  reformer,   born  at  South 
Adams,  Mass.,  15  February,  1820. 

Personal  letter,  dated  30  January,  1863,  just  after  the  death  of 
her  father,  to  Theodore  Tilton. 

The  proclamation  of  emancipation  had  been  issued  but  one 
month  previous,  and  the  following  extract  from  the  letter  gives  an 
index  of  the  feeling  of  abolitionists  at  the  time  : 

"Yes,  I  am  thankful  for  the  Proclamation,  and  shall  be  vastly  more  thankful 
when  I  see  the  men  and  the  means  in  actual  work  of  executing  its  provisions  to 
the  letter  and  the  spirit. 

But  the  adage  '  It  is  hard  to  learn  old  dogs  new  tricks '  is  most  strikingly 
exemplified  in  the  slow  and  feeble  moves  out  of  the  traces  of  slavery  —  to  turn 
freedomward  seems  the  work  of  ages,  when  we  take  into  view  the  blood  and 


MANUSCRIPTS  AND  AUTOGRAPHS 

treasure  poured  out  to  save  slavery  inviolate  —  and  yet  the  Nation  does  move  in 
that  direction,  and  we  will  hope." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Geo.  E.  Ferine  &  Co.  from  a  photograph. 


Arnim,  Elisabeth  von,  known  as  Bettina  von  Arnim,  sister  of  Clemens 
Brentano,  wife  of  Ludwig  Achim  von  Arnim,  born  in  Frankfurt- 
am-Main,  4  April,  1788,  died  in  Berlin,  20  January,  1859. 

Letter,  dated  13  November,  1846,  to  Dr.  Lehmann.  Mme.  von 
Arnim  is  best  known  through  her  ardent  childish  friendship  with 
Goethe.  Her  Goethe's  Corrcsporidence  ivith  a  Child  [836  6]  was 
for  a  long  time  thought  to  be  the  record  of  a  real  exchange  of 
letters.     It  is  now  known  to  be  mainly  imaginary. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  G.  Wolf  in  Weimar. 


Bacon,  Sir  Francis,   English   judge,   born   in    1587,   died  22   August, 
1657. 

Receipt  for  money,  dated  June,  1644,  given  in  his  capacity  of 
judge  of  his  majesty's  court  of  King's  Bench. 


Bailey,  Philip  James,  English   poet,  born    in  Nottingham,  England, 
22  April,  1816. 

Autograph  copy  of  The  Festus  Birth-day  Book,  being  selections 
from  the  author's  long  poem  Festus  [822.2    158]. 


Balzac,  Honore  de,   French  novelist,  born  at  Tours,   16  May,  1799, 
died  at  Paris,  20  August,  1850. 

Letter,  without  place  or  date,  addressed  to  M.  Merlin,  probably 
Romain  Merlin,  the  French  bibliographer. 


Bates,  Charlotte  Fiske,  now  Mrs.  Roge,  American  author,  born  in  New 
York  City,  30  November,  1838,  since  1847  a  resident  of  Cam- 
bridge, Mass. ,  a  friend  and  collaborator  of  Longfellow. 

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Signed  manuscript  of  poem  called  "Two  heads  better  than 
one,"  first  published  in  the  Bric-a-brac  department  of  the  Cen- 
tury for  June,  1886,  volume  10,  page  332. 


Beaconsfield,  Benjamin  Disraeli,  Earl  of,  English  statesman  and 
author,  born  in  London,  21  December,  1804,  died  in  London, 
19  April,  1880. 

Personal  letter,  dated  8  March,  1852,  to  S.  Lucas,  Esq.,  of  no 
interest  except  as  an  autograph. 

Portrait,  steel  engraving  from  photograph. 


Bentham,  Jeremy,   English  writer  on  jurisprudence,   born  in  Houns- 
ditch,  15  February,  1748,  died  6  June,  1832. 

Personal  letter,  dated  Hendon,  Middlesex,  25  February,  1789, 
to  Lord  Wycombe,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Earl  of  Shelburne.  Lord 
Shelburne,  who  was  afterward  created  the  first  Marquis  of  Lans- 
downe,  was  the  patron  and  intimate  friend  of  Bentham.  The  let- 
ter is  reproduced  in  the  edition  of  Bentham' s  Works,  edited  by 
John  Bowring,  Edinburgh,  1843,  volume  10,  page  196  [340    24]. 

The  letter  is  published  as  under  date  March  first,  but  evidence 
of  other  letters  seems  to  show  conclusively  that  it  was  really 
written  as  dated  in  this  manuscript.  The  letter  concerns  the 
proposed  publication  in  Paris,  for  the  use  of  the  States  General, 
of  Bentham's  work  on  Parliamentary  Tactics. 

Portrait,  proof  copy  of  an  engraving  by  S.  Freeman,  from  the 
painting  by  Worthington. 


Beranger,  Pierre  Jean  de,  French  lyric  poet,  born  in  Paris,  19  August, 
1780,  died  in  the  same  city,  16  July,  1857. 

Part  of  a  private  letter  interesting  only  as  being  a  good  speci- 
men of  the  poet's  handwriting  and  signature. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  Masson  from  his  own  drawing. 

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Bigelow,  John,  American  diplomatist,  journalist  and  author,  born  at 
Maiden,  N.  Y.,  25  November,  1817. 

Two  personal  letters,  dated  Berlin,  13  January  and  17  June, 
1871,  to  Theodore  Tilton.  Mr.  Bigelow,  at  the  close  of  his  term 
as  United  States  Minister  to  France,  resided  with  his  family  for 
some  time  in  Berlin. 

The  earlier  letter  was  written  on  the  occasion  of  Mr.  Tilton's 
retirement  from  the  Independent,  a  short  time  before  the  close  of 
the  Franco-German  war.  It  contains  a  passage  of  some  interest, 
as  follows  : 

"I  find  a  great  deal  in  my  life  here  in  Berlin  that  is  interesting  and  instructive. 
It  is  a  city  of  wonderful  intellectual  activities,  and  I  enjoy  the  facilities  possessed 
here  by  every  presentable  man  for  living  constantly  in  the  society  of  men  who 
know  more  of  something  worth  knowing  than  he  knows  himself. 

"Germany  and  France  are  passing  through  a  terrible  ordeal.  Providence  never 
wastes  anything  and  effects  are  always  proportioned  to  their  causes.  I  do  not 
doubt,  therefore,  that  the  good  that  will  result  to  the  world  from  this  war  will 
prove  sufficient  to  reconcile  the  ways  of  God  to  man  in  allowing  it  to  be  waged. 
Without  presuming  to  be  the  interpreter  of  Providence,  it  is  pretty  safe  to 
assume  that  the  war  will  not  cease  till  the  mind  and  conscience  of  Europe  are 
enfranchised  from  a  great  number  of  constraints,  prejudices  and  illusions,  religi- 
ous, social  and  political,  which  it  has  been  obliged  to  drag  around  like  a  ball  and 
chain  to  its  leg  for  centuries. " 

The  second  letter  relates  to  the  founding  of  Mr.  Tilton's  paper, 
the  Golden  Age,  and  discusses  personal  matters. 

Portrait,  proof  copy  of  an  engraving  by  S.  Freeman  from  the 
painting  by  Worthington. 


Blackmore,  Richard  Doddridge,  English  novelist,  born  at  Longworth, 
Berkshire,  7  June,  1825. 

Manuscript  of  ''To  fame"  a  poem  of  four,  four-line  stanzas, 
first  printed  in  Harper' s  Magazine  for  October,  188G,  volume  73, 
page  682. 


Blaine,  James  Gillespie,  American  statesman,  born  in  West  Browns- 
ville, Washington  Co.,  Penna.,  31  January,  1830,  died  in  Wash- 
ington, 27  January,  1893. 

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Letter  to  Theodore  Tilton,  at  Bath,  as  follows : 

Augusta,  Aug.  15,  1872. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

In  your  speeches  at  various  points  you  credit  me  with  saying  that,  of  the 
Liberal  Republicans,  "  some  should  be  coaxed  back,  some  driven  back  and  the 
balance  brought  back."  I  never  made  the  remark  and,  indeed,  never  heard  it 
until  reported  in  your  speeches.  A  denial  of  it  was  made  in  the  Kemiehec 
Journal  but  I  presume  you  did  not  see  it,  as  you  have  repeated  the  remark  since. 
May  I  request  respectfully  that  you  will  make  the  correction  publicly  ? 

In  haste,  very  truly  yours, 

J.   G.   BLAINE. 

Portrait,  engraved  on  steel  by  H.  B.  Hall,  Jr.,  from  a  photograph. 


Blake,  William,  English  poet,  painter  and  etcher,  born  in  London,  28 
November,  1757,  died  in  the  same  city,  12  August,  1827. 

Original  water-color,  one  of  the  designs  made  by  the  gifted,  but 
eccentric,  artist-poet  to  illustrate  Europe,  one  of  his  so-called 
"prophetic"  books  published  in  Lambeth  in  1794.  The  drawing 
represents  a  distorted,  Caliban-like  figure  hiding  behind  a  rock 
with  a  dagger  in  his  uplifted  hand  ready  to  strike  a  young  man  who 
is  approaching. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  L.  Dick,  from  a  painting  by  Blake 
himself. 


Blessington,  Marguerite  Gardiner,  Countess  of,  daughter  of  Edmund 
Power,  first  the  wife  of  Capt.  Maurice  St.  Leger  Farmer,  aft  ^ward 
the  wife  of  the  first  Earl  of  Blessington,  Irish  author  and  wit,  born 
at  Knockbrit,  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  1  September,  1789,  died 
in  Paris,  4  June,  1849. 

Manuscript   of  "To  spring,"  a    poem  probably  contributed  to 
The  Keepsake  during  Lady  Blessington' s  editorship. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  J.  Hinchliff,  from  the  painting  by  A.  E. 
Chaloner,  R.  A. 

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Boker,  George  Henry,  American  poet  and  diplomatist,  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, 6  October,  1823,  died  in  the  same  city,  2  January,  1890. 

Autograph  copy  of  the  first  stanza  of  his  "  Dirge  for  a  soldier," 
written  in  memory  of  Gen.  Philip  Kearney,  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Chantilly,  1  September,  1862. 

The  poem  is  contained  in  Mr.  Boker' s  volume  Poems  of  the  War 
[821.1  B6862.p],  and  in  many  collections. 

"  Close  his  eyes  ;    his  work  is  done  ! 
What  to  him  is  friend  or  foeman, 
Rise  of  moon,  or  set  of  sun, 

Hand  of  man,  or  kiss  of  woman  ? 

Lay  him  low,  lay  him  low, 
In  the  clover  or  the  snow  ! 
What  cares  he  ?    he  cannot  know. 
Lay  him  low  !  " 

Portrait,  photograph  by  Gutekunst,  Philadelphia. 


Bowen,  Henry  Chandler,  American  journalist,  for  many  years  editor 
and  proprietor  of  the  New  York  Independent,  born  at  Woodstock, 
Conn.,  11  September,  1813,  died  in  Brooklyn,  24  February,  1896. 

Personal    letter,  dated    Woodstock,  Conn.,   27   June,  1869,   to 
Theodore  Tilton,  interesting  only  as  an  autograph. 


Bowles,  The  Rev.  William  Lisle,  English  clergyman  and  poet,  brother 
of  Caroline  Bowles  Sou  they,  born  at  King's  Sutton,  Northampton- 
shire, 24  September,  1762,  died  at  Salisbtiry,  7  April,  1850. 

Letter,  dated  Bremhill,  18  November,  1833,  to  the  Rev.  George 
Crabbe,  the  son  of  the  poet,  concerning  Bowles's  acquaintance 
with  the  poet  and  giving  incidents  of  the  latter' s  life. 

Portrait,  line  engraving  from  a  drawing. 


Boyesen,  Hjalmar  Hjorth,  Norwegian -American  author,  born  in  Fred- 
ricksvoern,  Norway,  23  September,  1848,  died  in  New  York  City, 
4  October,  1895. 


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Manuscript  of  "  A  child  of  the  age,"  a  story  first  pubh'shed  in 
the  Century  for  December,  1885,  volume  9,  page  177,  afterward 
republished  in  his  collection  of  stories  Vagabond  Tales  [B791 — 13]. 


Bright,    John,    English   statesman,   born  near    Rochdale,    Lancashire, 
England,  16  November,  1811,  died  in  London,  27  March,  1889. 

Letter,  dated  Rochdale,  9  March,  18G3,  to  Theodore  Tilton  : 

Dear  Sir  : 

I  ought  sooner  to  have  acknowledged  your  kind  letter  of  January  30. 

It  is  most  pleasant  to  me  to  find  that  my  words  find  a  welcome  on  your  side  of 
the  water  —  they  are  all  spoken  to  give  encouragement  to  you  and  to  create  feel- 
ings of  good  will  between  your  people  and  ours. 

I  cannot  contest  what  you  say  as  to  an  earlier  proclamation  of  freedom.  The 
difficulties  of  your  President  are  enormous  and  I  forbear  to  judge  him. 

I  only  hope  that  God  may  give  your  people  strength  and  virtue  to  gain  the 
great  cause  that  is  now  in  your  keeping.  It  is  freedom  or  slavery  over  all  your 
continent.  The  English  people  are  true  to  their  ancient  faith  and  they  wish 
freedom  to  win  and  your  noble  Union  to  be  restored. 

Many  thanks  for  your  most  friendly  letter, 

Believe  me  always, 

truly  yours, 

JOHN  BRIGHT. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  A.  O'Neill  from  a  photograph. 


Bronte,  Charlotte,  English  novelist,  born  at  Thornton,  21  April,  1816, 
married  to  the  Rev.  Arthur  Nicholls,  29  June,  1854,  died  at 
Haworth,  31  March,  1855. 

Letter,  dated  Haworth,  28  July,  1852,  to  W.  S.  Williams  of 
the  publishing  house.  Smith,  Elder  &  Co.,  concerning  some 
arrangements  for  a  new  edition  of  "Shirley,"  and  also  concern- 
ing the  announcements  of  her  forthcoming  novel  "  Villette." 

The  letter  is  of  the  period  just  preceding  her  marriage  to  Mr. 
Nicholls,  and  while  she  was  living  alone  with  her  father  after  the  death 
of  her  brother  Bramwell  and  of  both  her  sisters  Emily  and  Anne. 
Isolation  and  ill-health  had  induced  great  depression  of  mind 
which  is  visible  throughout  the  letter. 


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The  letter  is  published  in  Mrs.  Gaskell's  Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte, 
chapter  24  [928.2  B786.g]. 

Portrait,    engraved    by    J.   C.    Armytage  from   the  painting    by 
G.  Richmond. 


Brooks,  The  Right  Rev.  Phillips,  American  clergyman,  bishop  of 
Massachusetts,  born  in  Boston,  13  December,  1835,  died  in  the 
same  city,  23  January,  1893. 

Manuscript  of  a  Thanksgiving  Day  sermon,  preached  at  Trinity 
church,  Boston,  26  November,  1885,  from  the  text  in  Daniel  iv  : 
4,5. 

Portrait,  half-tone  engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Brown,  Dr.   John,   Scotch  physician  and   author,  born    at  Biggar,    in 
Lanarkshire,  22  September,  1810,  died  in  Edinburgh,  11  May,  1882. 

Letter  to  Messrs.  Ticknor  &  Fields,  who  published  with  his 
sanction,  the  author's  Horce  Subsecivce  under  the  title  Spare  Hours. 

It  is  interesting  to  know  that  the  volume  spoken  of  in  the  letter, 
which  is  the  second  volume  of  the  American  Spare  Hours  [824.2 
B878.s],  but  the  third  of  the  Scotch  Horce  Subsecivce  [824.2  B 
878. h],  was  not  after  all  published  in  Edinburgh  until  March, 
1882,  shortly  before  Dr.  Brown's  death. 

The  letter  is  as  follows  : 

23  Rutland  Street,  Edinburgh, 

19  March,  1873. 
Dear  Sirs  : 

I  have  never  printed  your  2nd  vol.  of  Spare  Hours,  owing  to  the  refusal 
of  Bradbury  &  Evans  to  let  me  print  the  woodcuts  in  John  Leech  —  but  so  many 
enquiries  are  made  for  the  book  and  your  edition  is  in  such  requisition  that  Mr. 
Douglas  has  resolved  to  print  it  now  even  at  the  risk  (to  use  old  Sam  Rogers' 
joke)  of  its  being  dished  for  want  of  the  plates.  Now  I  would  like  to  know 
from  you,  approximately,  the  number  of  both  series  of  Spare  Hours  that  you 
have  sold.      It  would    also  be  a    great  kindness   if  you  could  forward  to  me  6 

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copies  of  the  last  series  and  2  of  the  first.     I  have  given  away  all  mine.     For 
this  and  for  the  expense  of  sending  them  you  must  allow  me  to  pay. 

I  hope  you  are  prospering  and  that  all  my  friends  are  well  —  kind  remem- 
brances to  them. 

Yours  truly, 

J.   BROWN. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  a  photograph. 


Browne,  Charles  Farrar,  American  humorist,  known  as  "Artemus 
Ward,"  born  at  Waterford,  Maine,  26  April,  1834,  died  at  South- 
ampton, England,  6  March,  1867. 

Letter,  dated  office  of  Vanity  Fair,  New  York  City,  19  Novem- 
ber, 1861,  declining  an  offer  for  a  book  from  his  pen,  also 

"  Artemus  Ward,  his  Programme,   Dodworth  Hall,  806  Broad- 
way. ' ' 


Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett,  daughter  of  Edward  Moulton,  who  after- 
ward took  the  name  Barrett,  wife  of  Robert  Browning  the  poet, 
born  14  March,  1809,  died  at  Florence,  29  June,  1861. 

Two  personal  letters  to  Theodore  Tilton,  while  he  was  editor 
of  the  New  York  Independent. 

Both  letters  are  written  during  the  serious  decline  in  health  and 
strength  to  which  both  her  sorrow  and  disappointment  over  Italian 
national  affairs  and  her  grief  at  the  death  of  her  favorite  sister 
contributed.  The  first  is  an  interesting  record  of  her  devotion  to 
the  cause  of  united  Italy.  The  second  shows  her  deep  feeling 
for  the  safety  of  the  United  States  and  her  intelligent  understand- 
ing of  American  affairs.  This  knowledge  concerning  American 
matters  was  doubtless  gained  from  association  with  many  American 
acquaintances,  both  in  Florence  and  in  Rome.  Mr.  Browning 
says  "In  fact,  I  believe  that  if  we  were  to  make  out  a  list  of  our 
best  and  dearest  friends  we  should  find  more  American  than  English 
names." 

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The  first  letter  is  dated  from  Casa  Guidi,  Florence,  but  was 
really  written  from  Siena,  where  the  Brownings  spent  the  summer 
of  1860,  in  the  Villa  Alberti. 

The  second  letter  was  written  from  126  Via  Felice,  Rome,  cer- 
tainly after  the  death  of  her  sister,  late  in  1860  or  early  in  the 
following  year,  probably  in  April,  1861. 

The  handwriting  is  much  changed  from  that  of  the  first  letter 
and  shows  the  fading  vitality  which  suddenly  failed  utterly  in  June. 

Neither  of  the  letters  has  been  published,  and  as  both  are  of 
great  interest,  they  are  printed  in  full. 

July  20,  [I860.] 

Casa  Guidi,  Florence. 
Dear  Sir  : 

In  acknowledging  your  liberality  in  the  two  hundred  dollars  received  through 
Mr.  Francis,  I  send  you  other  two  new  poems  on  Italian  affairs  with  a  certain 
reasonable  shyness.  Pray  understand  that  I  would  not  for  the  world  take 
advantage  of  your  having  perhaps  over-generously  made  a  rash  engagement  with 
me.  If  these  mss.  destined  for  a  future  edition  of  my  Italian  volume,  should 
suit  you,  they  are  at  your  service  ;  if  not  let  them  pass  simply  into  Mr.  Francis's 
hands  for  the  book.  Do  I  tire  you  of  Italy  ?  Another  time  I  may  let  you  have 
poems  of  a  more  general  interest.  Only,  here,  it  is  hard  for  us  to  understand 
how  anything  can  be  of  a  more  general  interest  than  this  subject.  We  are  feel- 
ing keenly  about  the  south.  May  God  keep  that  hero.  Garibaldi.  His  danger 
is  less  from  the  sword,  than  from  certain  influences  unfavorable  to  the  national 
sentiment,  and  against  which  he  should  have  steel  in  his  brain.  Divisions  coming 
now  (for  the  first  time  in  this  great  movement  !)  would  strengthen  the  separatists 
at  Naples,  and  turn  to  earnest  what  has  been  merely  formal  and  official  in  the 
action  of  foreign  diplomacy.  When  did  Mazzini's  finger  ever  touch  Italy  with- 
out a  blot  showing  ivhere  ?  Mr.  Francis  hints  that  your  people  are  not  very 
Napoleonist.  Neither  am  I  in  any  partisan  sense.  My  "Summing  up"  is  a 
bare  statement.  As  for  the  emperor  there  will  be  a  reaction  in  time  ;  and  mean- 
while it  would  be  a  pity  if  abstract  thinkers,  such  as  you  and  I,  should  allow  our- 
selves to  be  carried  away,  in  the  panic  and  passion  of  Europe,  from  an  estimate 
of  the  real  position.  The  Emperor's  farsightedness  in  foreign  policy  produces  a 
necessary  disagreement  with  statesmen  who  do  not  see  far,  and  his  recognition  of 
the  rights  of  majorities  and  the  nationalities,  being  perfectly  understood  by  the 
retrograde  parties  at  least,  these  build  monstrous  barricades  of  impossible  calum- 
nies for  the  arrest  of  progress  and  the  confusion  of  the  world.  Will  they  succeed 
in  their  scheme  of  drumming  up  a  coalition  of  the  old  governments  against  France  ? 
And,  in  that  case,  on  whose  side  will  go  the  peoples  ?  Those  are  questions,  but 
this  is  a  fact,  that  at  home   the  pope's  tyranny  is  maintained  and  abetted    by 

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French  anti-imperialist  parties  as  a  means  of  opposition  to  the  emperor.  "  Non 
his  armis"  you  would  say  if  you  were  a  French  protestor  against  the  government. 
Is  France  to  stir  a  finger,  do  you  think,  to  get  these  so-called  liberals  back  to 
power?     Believe  in  the  instinct  of  nations. 

Let  me  add  one  word.  I  must  for  I  have  only  written  so  many  because  of 
being  drawn  into  admiring  sympathy  with  you  by  your  noble  address  in  the 
church  of  Theodore  Parker.  What  affected  me  was  —  not  the  eloquence,  no  — 
but  the  rare  union  of  largeness  and  tolerance  with  fidelity  to  special  truth.  In 
our  age  faith  and  charity  are  found  —  but  they  are  unusually  found  apart.  We 
tolerate  everybody  because  we  doubt  everything, —  or  else  we  tolerate  nobody 
because  we  believe  something.  And  largeness  of  intellectual  vision  becomes  in- 
distinctness in  the  apprehension  of  outline  just  as  is  the  case  in  physical  near- 
sightedness. I  congratulate  you  on  being  able  to  speak  so.  Would  that  great 
truths  had  always  such  brave  witnesses.  And  would  that  brave  men  (like  Theo- 
dore Parker)  had  always  great  truths  to  be  brave  for. 

My  husband  unites  with  me  in  respects  and  good  wishes  while  I  remain, 
dear  sir, 

most  faithfully  yours 

ELIZABETH   B.   BROWNING. 

I  recommend  to  your  attention  Edmond  About's  pamphlets  "  La  [nouvelle]' 
carte  de  I'Europe"  and  "  La  Prusse  [en  I860]." 

We  are  at  Siena  at  present,  but  our  address  continues  to  be  Casa  Guidi, 
Florence. 

126  Via  Felice, 

Rome  [Early  in  1861.] 
My  dear  Mr.  Tilton  : 

If  you  have  had  time  under  the  pressure  of  your  many  thoughts  at  this  crisis 
to  think  of  me  at  all  you  may  have  wondered  at  the  gap  in  my  letters, —  but  I 
have  suffered  great  unhappiness  and  lost  my  usual  power  of  occupying  myself 
in  consequence. 

Now  I  send  you  something — or  nothing  as  you  may  decide — (3  poems) 
—  I  don't  insist  on  its  being  something  —  remember //^a/.  I  have  received  the 
Independents  very  thankfully.  It  was  by  an  accident  that  I  saw  the  "  Garibaldi  " 
stanzas  in  the  anti-slavery  paper  first  and  I  should  be  quick  to  acknowledge  that 
the  typographical  faults  were  confined  to  it.  You  are  very  good  in  representing 
me  with  correctness,  as  in  all  the  rest.  My  husband  has  drawn  for  the  remit- 
tance belonging  to  the  two  last  poems,  " Garibaldi "  and  the  "Summing  up." 

Perhaps  one  of  these  days  his  sense  of  your  generosity  and  appreciation  of  it 
as  a  peculiar  expression  of  kind  sentiment  towards  both  of  us  may  overcome  his 
disinclination  to  the  periodical  channel.  Never  suppose  that  I  have  not  done 
my  best  to  send  him  to  you  in  my  stead, —  I  know  my  place  too  well  as  poet, 
and  my  duty  too  well  as  your  contributor.  Shall  I  say  that  Cornhill  and  the 
Atlantic  Monthly  have  hitherto,  solicited  him  in  vain?    But  I  don't  give  up  hope. 

I  thank  you  very  much  for  your  most  interesting  letter  on  American  affairs. 
I  go  with  your  party  entirely.      The  constitution  could  only  be    rectified  from 

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within,  unless  you  attacked  it  from  without  with  guns,  and  I  think  Garrison 
eschewed  the  latter  mode.  He  would  use  neither  congress  nor  sword.  Now  the 
question  is  thrown  into  new  possibilities  of  solution  by  that  fine  madness  of  the 
South,  which  is  God's  gift  to  the  world  in  these  latter  days  in  order  to  the  resti- 
tution of  all  things  and  the  re-constitution  everywhere  of  political  justice  and 
national  right. 

See  how  it  has  been  in  Italy  !  If  Austria  had  not  madly  invaded  Piedmont 
in  '59  France  could  not  have  fought.  If  the  Pope  had  not  been  madly  obstinate 
in  rejecting  the  reforms  pressed  on  him  by  France,  he  must  have  been  sustained 
as  a  temporal  ruler.  If  the  King  of  Naples  had  not  madly  refused  to  accept 
the  overtures  of  Piedmont  towards  an  alliance  in  free  government  and  Italian 
independence,  we  should  have  had  to  wait  for  Italian  unity.  So  with  the  rulers 
of  Tuscany,  Modena,  etc.  Everybody  was  mad  at  the  right  moment.  I  thank 
God  for  it.  '■^ Mais  inon  cker,''''  said  Napoleon  to  the  Tuscan  ex-Grand  Duke, 
weeping  before  him  as  a  suppliant,  '■'■vous  etiez  a  Solferino.^''  That  act  of  pure 
madness  settled  the  Duke's  claims  upon  Tuscany.  And  looking  yearningly  to 
our  poor  Venetia  (to  say  nothing  of  other  suffering  peoples  beyond  this  penin- 
sula) my  cry  must  still  be  "Give,  Give  !    More  madness  Lord  !" 

The  pope  has  been  madder  than  anybody  and  for  a  much  longer  time,  exactly 
because  his  case  was  complex  and  difficult  and  because  with  catholic  Europe  and 
the  French  clerical  party  (strengthened  by  M.  Guizot  and  the  whole  French 
dynastic  opposition,  I  wish  them  joy  of  their  cause)  drawn  up  on  the  Holy 
Father's  side,  the  least  touch  of  sanity  would  have  saved  him,  to  the  immense 
injury  of  the  Italian  nation.  As  it  is  we  are  at  the  beginning  of  the  end.  We 
see  light  at  the  end  of  the  cavern.  There's'a  dark  turning  indeed  about  Venetia 
—  but  we  won't  hit  our  heads  against  the  stalactites  even  there, —  and  beyond  we 
get  out  into  a  free  great  independent  Italy.     May  God  save  us  to  the  end  ! 

At  this  point  the  anxiety  on  American  affairs  can  take  its  full  share  of  thought. 
My  partiality  for  fi-enzies  is  not  so  absorbing,  believe  me,  as  to  exclude  very 
painful  considerations  on  the  dissolution  of  your  great  Union.  But  my  serious 
fear  has  been  and  is,  not  for  the  dissolution  of  the  body  but  the  death  of  the 
soul — not  of  a  rupture  of  the  slates  and  civil  war  —  but  of  reconciliation  and 
peace  at  the  expense  of  a  deadly  compromise  of  principle.  Nothing  will  destroy 
the  republic  but  what  corrupts  its  conscience  and  disturbs  its  fame  —  for  the  stain 
upon  the  honor  must  come  off  upon  the  flag.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  the  North 
stands  fast  on  the  moral  ground,  no  glory  will  be  like  your  glory,  —  your  frontiers 
may  diminish  but  your  essential  greatness  will  increase,  your  foes  may  be  of  your 
own  household,  but  your  friends  must  be  among  all  just  and  righteous  men 
whether  in  the  body  or  out  of  the  body.  You  are  "compassed  by  a  great  cloud 
of  witnesses  "  and  can  afford  to  risk  anything  except  conscience.  Ought  not  the 
North,  for  instance,  to  propose  a  pecuniary  compromise,  taxing  itself  for  compen- 
sation to  the  South.     What  surprises  me  is  that  the  slaves  don't  rise. 

Never  imagine  from  anything  said  to  you  by  Mr.  Bayard  Taylor,  who  remem- 
bers far  too  well  a  mere  historical  remark  of  mine  upon  the  influence  of  govern- 
ment on  art,  that  I  am  non-republican.  I  honor  republicanism  everywhere  as  an 
expression  of  the  people,  but  it  seems  to  me  that  a  theoretical  attachment  to  any 

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form  of  government  whatever  is  simply  pedantry,  as  if  one  should  insist  on 
everybody's  wearing  one  kind  of  hat,  or  adopting  one  attitude.  A  genuine 
government  is  simply  the  attitude  of  that  special  people.  What  we  require  for 
every  man  (or  state)  is  life,  health,  muscular  freedom  to  choose  his  own  attitude. 
Let  us  be  for  the  democracy  and  leave  the  rest.  Who  cares  for  the  figure  at  the 
helm  so  long  as  the  people's  wind  is  in  the  sails  ?  I  care  little.  Only  I  do  care 
that  the  democracy  should  have  power  —  that  each  man  should  have  the  inherit- 
ance of  a  man  and  the  right  of  voting  where  he  is  taxed.     So  this  is  my  creed. 

If  I  had  an  opportunity  I  would  send  you  photographs  of  my  husband  and  even 
of  myself — though  I  had  better  rest  with  you  perhaps  in  the  engraving  which 
you  think  like  Mrs.  Tilton,  since  that  surely  must  have  points  in  my  favor. 
Three  little  daughters  have  you  ?  That  is  better  than  one  little  son  —  seeing  that 
we  often  feel  it  too  frightful  to  have  all  our  treasure  in  a  single  coin.  The  pure 
gold  of  it  only  increases  the  fear.     Oh  —  I  must  send  you  a  photograph  of  our  boy. 

We  shall  be  in  Rome  till  May  and  then  return  to  Florence. 

Napoleon  will  come  out  admirably  in  the  Italian  results.  He  has  had  Europe 
at  the  end  of  the  diplomatical  sword  of  fence,  and  a  European  coalition  against 
him  as  no  remote  contingency.  Often  what  has  seemed  like  opposition  to  our 
progress  here,  has  simply  been  putting  on  the  drag  down  hill  when  the  wheel 
was  inclined  to  a  perilous  velocity.  But  there  are  some  who  cannot  understand, 
and  more  who  will  not.      It  will  be  enough  that  the  Italian  nation  understands. 

As  to  novel-writing,  I  go  so  naturally  into  verse.  What  is  truth  in  my  con- 
victions as  well  as  what  is  warmest  in  my  emotions  run  naturally  to  rhyme. 
And  life  is  short  and  art  long  —  as  has  been  said  once  or  twice  before.  Then 
you  have  Mrs.  Stowe.  Her  new  story  opens  beautifully  and  promises  what  she 
can  keep.     I  congratulate  the  Independent  upon  it. 

That  is  all  for  to-day.     My  husband  unites  in  regards  with  me,  and  I  remain 
most  truly  your  friend 

ELIZABETH  B.   BROWNING. 

Five  portraits:  1,  from  the  original  painting  by  Chappel ;  2, 
nameless;  3,  Etched  by  H.  B.  Hall,  N.  Y.,  1876;  4,  Engraved 
by  G.  E.  Ferine  &  Co.;  5,  Engraved  for  the  Eclectic  by  Ferine 
&  Giles,  N.  Y. 


Browning,  Robert,  English  poet,  born  at  Camberwell,  7  May,  1812, 
died  at  Venice,  12  December,  1889. 

Letter  to  Theodore  Tilton,  written  a  few  weeks  after  Mrs. 
BroAvning's  death,  from  St.  Enogat  in  Brittany,  where  Mr.  Brown- 
ing was  staying  with  his  father  and  sister. 

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The  letter  has  never  been  published  and  is  therefore  printed  in  full. 

St.  Enogat  pres  Dinard,  France,  Sept.  11,  1861. 

My  dear  si — (or  rather,  reciprocating  an  affectionate  expression  of  yours, 
shall  I  not  say?  My  dear  Friend)  —  I  have  felt  the  very  kindness  of  your  letter 
stop  more  than  one  attempt  to  say  something  in  reply  to  it  :  this,  that  I  am  resolved 
to  write  now,  may  at  least  tell  you  that  I  was  neither  insensible  nor  ungrateful 
when  your  two  newspapers,  together  with  that  letter  reached  me.  I  will  not  try 
and  explain  why  it  is  that,  by  what  might  pass  for  a  fantastic  perversion  of  feel- 
ing, all  the  last  things  seem  almost  unduly  precious,  — last  incidents,  last  appre- 
ciations, last  kindnesses  —  and  it  is  certainly  not  because  our  acquaintance  with 
you  was  late  in  the  day,  that  it  will  be  the  less  valued.  Let  me  hope  that,  with- 
out my  motive,  you  will,  for  your  part,  continue  to  hold  what  you  have  so  gener- 
ously taken  up,  and  remember  that  the  dim  days  before  me  could  ill  spare  the 
light  of  a  single  kind  face  I  count  upon.  One  day,  if  ever  we  see  each  other 
face  to  face,  I  may  correct  some  of  the  mis-statements  which  have  got  into 
currency,  and  a  few  of  which  re-appear  in  your  notice.  Dear  Hillard's  story  is 
altogether  a  myth,  for  instance.  But  absolutely  nothing  of  the  private  life  ever 
transpired,  and  fancies  like  this  do  no  great  harm.  I  have  seen  no  other  notices, 
indeed  no  other  American  newspapers,  in  this  wild  corner  of  Brittany  where  I 
am  endeavoring  to  regain  strength  of  various  kinds.  In  a  fortnight  I  shall  be  in 
London  where  I  must  occupy  myself  with  the  education  of  my  only  child.  On 
my  arrival  I  will  send  you  the  photograph  you  had  the  goodness  to  desire  —  and 
another,  taken  a  few  days  before  our  departure  from  Rome,  —  one  so  nearly  all  / 
could  desire  as  to  put  the  previous  attempts  out  of  my  thoughts  :  there  is  a 
photograph  also  from  a  picture  made  of  the  room  in  Casa  Guidi  we  have  been 
used  to  for  fourteen  years,  which  may  go  with  the  rest.  I  will  send  these, —  say 
for  me  —  to  dear  Page,  to  Hillard  and  to  other  friends  of  whose  sympathy  I  am 
sure.     Thank  them  deeply. 

Chapman  wrote  me  nearly  two  months  ago  to  say  that  a  new  edition  of  the 
Poems  was  wanted  at  once.  I  shall  attend  to  this  on  my  return  to  England,  but 
I  may  say  something  to  you  at  once.  There  remain  unpublished  a  few  poems, 
reserved  for  another  volume.  Some  of  them  are  among  the  writer's  best,  she 
thought,  and  I  think.  Do  you  wish  to  print  these,  as  you  printed  the  others? 
only,  I  suppose  I  should  add,  in  closer  succession  so  as  to  enable  Chapman  to 
include  them  in  the  edition  which  I  should  retard  till  the  latest  possible.  The 
intense  excitement  of  your  own  politics  may  have  changed  the  direction  of  the 
interest  of  your  readers  ;  I  can  well  understand  if  it  be  so  ;  but  your  own  munifi- 
cence renders  such  a  question  necessary.  My  wife  would  never,  of  late  years, 
write  for  any  other  periodical  than  yours  and  Thackeray's  —  for  whom  she  had  a 
personal  friendship  :  the  last  poem  she  ever  wrote,  an  exquisite  one,  was  sent 
to  his  Magazine — but  I  countermanded  it  —  nor  is  there  any  publication  to  which 
I  shall  entrust  that  and  the  rest  unless  to  yours.  You  will  tell  me  by  a  word  to 
the  care  of  Chapman  &  Hall,  193  Piccadilly. 

I  have  never  heard  from  Mr,  Francis,  by  the  way,  since  he  printed  the 
"Napoleon  III,"  etc. —  does  he  wish  me  to  continue  to  send  him  early  proof-sheets 

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of  whatever  else  may  be  published  in  England?  I,  too,  have  lost  the  "explana- 
tion of  American  affairs"  and  what  can  I. do,  in  the  absence  of  authentic  infor- 
mation, but  assure  you,  however  unnecessarily,  of  my  belief  in  the  justice,  and 
confidence  in  the  triumph  of  the  Great  Cause  ?  I  shall  soon  know  a  little  of  the 
truth  on  recent  events  only  to  be  guessed  at  now,  but  on  the  righteousness  of 
the  principle  I  want  no  information.     God  prosper  it  and  its  defenders  ! 

Ever  yours  affectionately  and  gratefully,  ROBERT  BROWNING, 

Portrait,  etching  from  an  early  picture,  some  time  before  1854. 


Bryant,  William  Cullen,  American  poet  and  editor,  born  at  Cumming- 
ton,  Mass.,  3  November,  1794,  died  in  New  York,  12  June,  1878. 

Manuscript  of  the  Preface  to  his  translation  of  the  Odyssey  [883 
25],  dated  [August]  1871. 


Burke,  Edmund,  Irish  statesman,  born  in  Dublin  in  1729,  died  at  Bea- 
consfield,  9  July,  1797. 

Letter,  dated  23  November,  1779,  to  a  person  unknown  who  had 
presented  a  book,  also  unknown,  with  a  complimentary  letter,  to 
Mr.  Burke. 

Engraved  portrait. 


Burns,  Robert,  Scotch  poet,  born  at  Alloway  in  Ayrshire,  25  January, 
1759,  died  at  Dumfries,  21  July,  1796. 

Manuscripts  of  two  songs,  "Robin  shure  in  hairst  "  and  "The 
banks  of  Nith."  The  first  is  a  revision  of  an  old  song  called 
"Robin  sheared  in  hairst."  Burns  writes  of  it,  in  a  letter  of  6 
January,  1789,  to  Robert  Ainslie,  who  was  Burns' s  companion  on 
his  first  tour  to  the  Border  counties : 

"I  am  still  catering  for  Johnson's  publication;  and,  among 
others,  I  have  brushed  up  the  following  old  favorite  song  a  little, 
with  a  view  to  your  worship. ' ' 

The  song,  as  amended,  was  first  printed  in  the  sixth  volume  of 
Johnson's  The  Scot' s  Musical  Museum,  1803. 

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The  second  song,  "  The  Banks  of  Nith,"  was  printed  in  the  third 
vokime  of  The  Scot's  Musical  Museum,  1790,  to  the  tune  "  Robie 
donna  gorach,"  by  Captain  Riddel  in  the  measure  of  "Goodnight 
and  joy  be  wi'  ye  a'." 

Both  songs  are  reproduced  in  "  The  Complete  Works  of  Robert 
Bunts,"  Gebbie,  Phila.,  1886,  volume  3,  pages  38  and  70  [821.2 
B967— 7]. 

Two  portraits:  1,  engraved  by  J.  B.  Hunt  from  the  painting  by 
A.  Nasmyth  in  1787  now  in  the  National  Gallery,  Edinburgh;  2, 
engraved  by  H.  Robinson  from  the  original  chalk  drawing  by 
Archibald  Skirving  now  in  Sir  Theodore  Martin's  collection. 


Burr,  Aaron,  American  statesman,  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  6  February, 
1756,  died  on  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  14  September,  1836. 

Leaf  from  an  index  in  manuscript,  made  by  Burr  while  he  was 
practicing  law  in  Albany.  The  history  of  the  manuscript  is  given 
in  an  accompanying  letter  of  identification  written  by  the  Hon. 
Lewis  B.  Proctor  of  Albany. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  E.  G.  Williams  &  Brother,  from  a  painting 
by  J.  Vandyke. 


Burroughs,  John,  American  naturalist  and  author,  born  in  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  3  April,  1837. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Winter  neighbors, ' '  an  essay  first  published 
in  the  Century  for  December,  1884,  volume  7,  page  218,  afterward 
included  in  his  volume  A  Year  in  the  Fields  [824.1   B972.y]. 

Portrait,  wood -engraving,  nameless. 


Byron,  George  Gordon  Noel,  Baron  Byron  of  Rochdale,  English  poet, 
born  in  London,  22  January,  1788,  died  at  Missolonghi,  Greece, 
19  April,  1824. 

Personal    letter    to  Th.    B.   Hoppner,    British    consul-general  at 
Venice.     The  stanza  included  in  the  letter  was  written  in  celebration 

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of  the  birth  of  Mr.  Hoppner's  little  son,  who  was  christened 
John  William  Rizzo.  The  stanza  was  translated  into  ten  different 
languages:  see  Moore's  Letters  and  Journals  of  Lord  Byron,  \o\- 
ume  2,  page  114  [928.2    B.99.mo]. 

January  18th,  1818 
I  wish  you  Joy  and  hope  that  the  young  Venetian  and  his  Mother  are  both 
doing  their  best. 

His  father's  Sense,  his  Mother's  Grace 

In  Him  I  hope  will  always  fit  so 
With  (still  to  keep  him  in  good  case) 

The  Health  and  Appetite  of  Rizzo. 

Yrs  ever  B. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  H.  Meyer,  from  the  original  drawing, 
made  in  1817,  by  George  Henry  Harlow. 


Cable,  George  Washington,  American  author,  born  in  New  Orleans, 
La.,  12  October,  1844. 

Manuscript  of  ''A  disinterested  report,"  a  paper,  written  about 
1881,  on  the  educational  work  of  the  American  Missionary  Asso- 
ciation in  the  south,  compiled  by  Mr.  Cable  from  the  testimony 
of  southern  white  men.  The  report  is  written  with  pencil  upon 
the  reverse  of  a  patent  medicine  circular  and  is  wonderfully  legible 
and  precise.  Mr.  Cable  adds  a  note  to  the  manuscript  saying  that 
it  is  the  first  draft  of  the  article,  written  with  the  left  hand,  and 
quite  different  from  the  final  copy  for  the  printer. 

Manuscript  of  article  ''The  silent  south,"  first  published  in 
the  Century  for  September,  1885,  volume  8,  page  674,  reprinted, 
during  the  same  year,  in  a  volume  called  ^^The  Silent  South,  together 
with  The  Freedman^  s  Case  in  Equity,  and  The  Convict  Lease  Sys- 
tem''     [974.5  21]. 


Campbell,  Thomas,  Scotch  poet,  born  at  Glasgow,  27  July,  1777,  died 
at  Boulogne,  15  June,  1843. 

Manuscript  of  "The  emigrant,"  a  poem  published  anonymously 
in  1823  in  the  New  Monthly  Magazine,  which  Campbell  edited  from 

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1820  to  1830.     The  lines  are  not  included  in  ordinary  collections 
of  Campbell's  poems  and  are  therefore  reproduced  : 

"THE  EMIGRANT. 

When  fax-  scls  the  forests  on  blaze, 

It  expires  on  their  desolate  track  ; 
But  the  love  which  has  lighted  our  days, 

Still  burns  when  our  prospects  are  black. 

I  must  go  to  the  Huron's  wild  grounds. 

Whilst  thou  bloom' St  to  thine  own  native  sun  ; 

Oh,  the  ocean  that  parts  us  has  bounds. 
But  the  grief  of  our  parting  has  none. 

Can  the  eagle  fly  home  to  his  mate  ? 

Can  he  build  by  Niagara's  foam  ? 
And  are  we  interdicted  by  fate 

From  a  spot  of  the  world  for  our  home  ? 

Thou  art  lost  to  me  ev'n  as  the  dead, 

And  our  tears  unavailingly  flow  ; 
Yet  to  think  they  could  cease  to  be  shed. 

Would  be  worse  than  this  burthen  of  woe." 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 


Carleton,  William,   generally  known  as    "Will   Carleton,"   American 
poet,  born  in  Hudson,  Mich.,  21  October,  1845. 

Manuscript  of  "Will   Carleton's  Walks;  above  and  under  the 
seething  falls  of  Niagara." 


Carlyle,  Jane  Baillie  Welsh,  born  at  Haddington,  14  July,  1801,  mar- 
ried to  Thomas  Carlyle  17  October,  1826,  died  21  April,  1866. 

Private   letter   without   address,   place,  or   date,  of  no  general 
interest. 


Gary,  Miss  Phoebe,  American  poet,  born  near  Cincinnati,  24  Septem- 
ber, 1824,  died  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  31  July,  1871. 

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Letter,  dated  New  York,  February  9,  1858,  to  Mr.  Tilton,  accom- 
panying a  poem  sent  to  the  Independent. 

Portrait,  steel  engraving,  nameless. 


Channing,  The  Rev.  William  Ellery,  American  clergyman,  born  in 
Newport,  R.  I.,  7  April,  1780,  died  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  2  Octo- 
ber, 1842. 

Manuscript  of  "  A  sunset  walk,"  a  poem  in  blank  verse. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  Cheney  from  a  painting  by  Washington 
Allston  in  1811. 


Chapin,  The  Rev.  Edwin  Hubbell,  American  clergyman,  for  many 
years  pastor  of  the  Fourth  Universalist  Society,  New  York,  born  in 
Union  Village,  N.  Y.,  29  December,  1814,  died  in  New  York  City, 
27  December,  1880. 

Manuscript  of  a  sermon,  preached  in  the  Broadway  church,  19 
May,  1861,  called  "The  crown  of  life,"  from  the  text  in  James 
i:12. 


Chase,  Salmon  Portland,  American  statesman  and  jurist,  born  in  Cor- 
nish, N.  H.,  13  January,  1808,  chief  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States  from  6  December,  1864,  until  his  death  in 
New  York  City,  7  May,  1873. 

Two  letters,  the  first  dated  Washington,  9  July,  1867,  the  second 
dated  Washington,  19  April,  1868,  both  to  Theodore  Tilton. 

The  earlier  letter,  omitting  the  last  paragraph,  is  published  in 
Robert  B.  Warden's  Account  of  the  Private  Life  and  Public  Services 
of  Salmon  Portland  Chase,  1874,  page  668  [928.1  C.386.w]. 

The  second  letter,  though  marked  "  strictly  private,"  is  published 
in  J.  W.  Shuckers's  Life  and  Public  Services  of  Sal?no?t  Portland 
Chase,  1874,  page  579  [923.1  C.386.s]. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall,  Jr.,  from  a  photograph. 

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Cheney,  Ednah  Dow  Littlehale,  Mrs.   Seth  Wells  Cheney,  American 
author,  born  in  Boston,  27  June,  1824. 

Autograph  copy  of  her  translation  of  six  out  of  thirteen  "  Selec- 
tions from  forty-eight  epitaphs  for  Cecchino  Bracci  Fiorentino,  who 
died  in  Rome  in  his  seventeenth  year,  Jan.  8,  1654  "  published  in 
Selected  Poems  from  Michelangelo  Buonarroti,  with  translations 
from  various  sources,  edited  by  Ednah  D.  Cheney  [851  10]. 


Cheney,  John  Vance,  American  poet  and  librarian,  born  in  Grove- 
land,  N.  Y.,  29  December,  1848. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Young  love  is  lord,"  a  poem  first  pub- 
lished in  the  Century  for  April,  1886,  volume  9,  page  900. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Lass  Lurline,"  a  poem  first  published 
in  the  Century  for  August,  1885,  volume  8,  page  656. 


Child,  Lydia  Maria  Francis,  Mrs.  David  Lee  Child,  American  author, 
born  in  Medford,  Mass.,  11  February,  1802,  died  in  Wayland, 
Mass.,  20  October,  1880. 

A  series  of  six  personal  letters,  dated  Wayland,  Mass.,  from  12 
February,  1860,  to  27  May,  1866,  to  Theodore  Tilton. 

All  the  letters,  save  the  last  one,  date  from  the  troubled  period 
of  the  civil  war.  Mrs.  Child  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  most  out- 
spoken of  abolitionists  and  the  letters  are  full  of  allusions  which 
show  how  bitter  even  a  woman  of  her  natural  tolerance  and  sweet- 
ness of  disposition  could  become  under  the  excitement  of  the  great 
struggle.  The  letters  contain  too  many  personal  allusions  to  be 
printed. 


Clarke,  The  Rev.  James  Freeman,  American  clergyman,  for  many  years 

pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Disciples,  Boston,  born  in  Hanover, 

N.  H.,  4  April,  1810,  died  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  8  June,  1888. 

Manuscript  of  "  The  machine  in  politics  and  religion,"  a  sermon 

preached  22  October,  1882,  in  the  Church  of  the  Disciples,  Boston, 

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from  the  text  in  Ezekiel  i :  20,  "The  spirit  of  the  living  creature 
was  in  the  wheels,"  afterward  published  as  chapter  twenty-five, 
"  Moral  mechanics  and  dynamics,"  in  the  volume  Every-Day 
Religion  [241  62] . 


Clay,  Henry,  American  statesman,  born  in  Hanover  Co.,  Va.,  12 
April,  1777,  died  in  Washington,  29  June,  1852. 

Letter,  dated  White  Sulphur  Springs,  7  July,  1828,  to  Col. 
Joseph  Lovell  and  a  group  of  gentlemen  of  Kanawha  Court  House, 
now  Charleston,  West  Virginia,  expressing  Mr.  Clay's  regret  at 
being  unable  to  accept  an  invitation  to  a  public  dinner  in  his 
honor. 

Letter,  dated  1-3  July,  also  to  Col.  Lovell,  accompanying  an 
address,  evidently  asked  for  by  the  same  group  of  gentlemen, 
which  is  to  be  used  at  their  discretion.  The  address  is  occu- 
pied with  two  subjects  :  first,  a  defense  of  himself  against  the 
"bargain  and  corruption"  charges  which  were  made  directly  after 
his  acceptance  of  the  portfolio  of  state  from  President  John 
Quincy  Adams  ;  second,  a  statement  of  his  ideas  on  the  "Ameri- 
can system,"  otherwise  the  tariff. 

Letter,  dated  Ashland,  18  June,  1833,  to  Messrs.  Parks  and 
Southworth,  referring  them  to  printed  sources  for  details  as  to  his 
life  for  use  in  a  work  on  American  Statesmen  and  Orators. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  Sealey  from  a  daguerreotype  by  Root. 


Clemens,  Samuel    Langhorne,    American    author,    known   as    "Mark 
Twain,"  born  in  Florida,  Monroe  Co.,  Mo.,  30  November,  1835. 

Manuscript  of  Adventures  of  Huckleberry  Finn,  Tom  Sawyer's 
comrade,  scene,  the  Mississippi  valley,  time,  forty  to  fifty  years  ago. 
First  published  by  Charles  L.  Webster  &  Co.  in  1885   [T97— 2]. 


Cleveland,  Grover,    twenty-second    president    of  the   United   States, 
born  in  Caldwell,  N.  J.,  18  March,  1837. 

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Manuscript  of  **  A  proclamation  by  the  President  of  the  United 
States"  for  Tiianksgiving  Day,  dated  2  November,  1885. 

Letter,  dated  Executive  Mansion,  Washington,  13  December, 
1885,  to  Mr.  J.  N.  Larned,  concerning  the  manuscript  entered 
above. 


Cobbe,  Miss  Frances  Power,  Irish  author  and  philanthropist,  born  in 
Dublin,  4  December,  1822. 

Signed  manuscript  of  the  conclusion  of  an  article,  dated 
February,  1886,  on  "Faith  healing  and  fear  killing,"  pub- 
lished in  the  Contemporary  Review  for  June,  1887,  volume  51, 
page  794. 

This  bright,  wholesome-minded  Irishwoman  after  seventy  long, 
busy  years  could,  in  the  preface  to  her  Life,  [928.2  C.633], 
write  the  following  : 

"I  would  gladly  accept  the  permission  to  run  my  earthly  race 
once  more  from  beginning  to  end,  taking  sunshine  and  shade 
just  as  they  have  flickered  over  the  long  vista  of  my  seventy 
years." 

The  printed  form  of  the  article  differs  somewhat  from  this  manu- 
script, which  is  as  follows  : 

"  Old  Selden  in  his  Table  Talk  says  '  To  preach  long  and  loud  and  damnation 
is  the  way  to  be  cried  up.  Men  love  the  man  who  damns  them  and  run  after  him 
again  to  save  them  ! '  The  secret  has  I  fear  been  bequeathed  to  our  modern 
priests  the  doctors.  It  is  right  and  proper  for  them  to  warn  us  in  moderation 
but  they  carry  the  joke  too  far.  '  Touch  not  !  Taste  not  !  Handle  not  !  There 
is  death  in  the  Pot  !  'Ware  Microbes  here  !  'Ware  bacili  there  !  'Ware  drains 
everywhere  !  All  the  world's  a  hospital  and  all  the  men  and  women  merely 
patients.'  They  point  to  our  hearts  and  bid  us  be  anxious  for  nothing,  not  on 
Christian  principles  but  lest  we  'dilate'  that  'muscle.'  They  point  to  our 
stomachs  and  repeat  practically,  Voltaire's  inscription  on  the  statue  of  Love, — 

'  Qui  que  til  sots,  void  t07t  maUre 
II  Vest,  le  flit  oil  le  doit  etre  f ' 

There  is  no  end  to  the  '  host  of  spectres  pale '  which  beleaguer  us  summoned  by 
their  spells  and  clothed  with  additional  terrors  by  the  alarming  new  scientific  names 

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they  have  bestowed  nn  them.  But  there  ought  to  be  some  limits  to  this  perpet- 
ual cry  of  '  Wolf !  Wolf ! '  We  must  all  die  sooner  or  later  whether  with  the 
aid  of  scientific  advisers  or  without  it ;  and  it  would  be  better  to  die  sooner,  pur- 
suing noble  objects,  performing  natural  duties  and  enjoying  natural  pleasures,  than 
a  little  later,  amid  pitiful  anxieties  and  odious  inoculations  and  messes,  like  the 
years  of  the  existence  of  Moliere's  '  Malade  Imaginaire. '  Perhaps  we  may  never 
discover  the  secret  of  'Faith  Healing';  but  at  least  we  can  avoid  'Fear  Killing' 
—  dying  by  inches  out  of  sheer  anxiety  to  live,  and  being  slain  at  last  by  the 
very  dread  of  death." 


Cockburn,  Sir  George,  British  admiral  of  the  fleet,  born  in  1772,  died 
19  August,  1853. 

Copy  in  manuscript  of  "Extract  from  a  Diary  with  particular 
reference  to  General  Napoleon  Bonaparte  on  the  passage  from  Eng- 
land to  Saint  Helena  in  1815  on  board  H.  M.  S.  Northumberland 
bearing  the  Rear  Admiral's  Flag."  This  copy  was  sent  to  Lord 
Shaftesbury  with  the  following  letter  of  explanation  : 

St.  Katharine's,  June  16,  1860. 
Aly  Lord  : 

Since  the  future  policy  of  Napoleon  the  3d,  agreeably  to  the  expression 
of  His  Majesty's  own  writings,  appears  to  be  the  gradual  development  of  the 
views  of  the  ist  Emperor,  tempered  by  passing  events,  I  have  ventured  to 
request  the  presentation  of  the  accompanying  copy  of  a  M.  S.S.  to  your  Lordship, 
with  the  hope  that  it  may  prove  interesting  and  perhaps  useful,  in  throwing  addi- 
tional light  upon  subjects  of  probable  importance  to  the  Government.  It  has 
not  been  published  either  at  home  or  abroad.  Your  Lordship  may  fully  rely  upon 
the  authenticity  of  the  M.  S.  S.  I  have  the  honor  to  remain  My  Lord  your  obedi- 
ent and  faithful  servant  JOHN  G.   H.   HILL. 

The  manuscript  has  since  been  published,  in  1888,  with  the  above 
title,  with  a  preface  by  Thos.  Salkeld  Borradaile  [944.5  227]  the 
printed  book  varying  from  this  copy  in  being  somewhat  more 
complete. 


Coleridge,  Hartley,  English  author,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  Taylor  Cole- 
ridge, born  at  Clevedon,  Somersetshire,  19  September,  1796,  died 
at  Grasmere,  6  January,  1849. 

Original  manuscript    of   "Address  to  certain  golden  fishes,"  a 
poem  first  published  in  the  Literary  Souvenir  for  1830,  included  in 

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his  ^'^  Poems,  with  a  memoir  of  his  life,  by  his  Brother''''  volume  1, 
page  123  [821.2     C6928— 1]. 


Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor,  English  poet  and  philosopher,  born  at  Ottery 
St.  Mary,  21  October,  1772,  died  at  Highgate,  25  July,  1834. 

Signed  manuscript  of  a  sonnet  "To  Mr.  William  Linley." 
The  sonnet  was  first  printed  in  the  Annual  Anthology,  Bristol, 
1800,  and  is  reproduced  in  editions  of  Coleridge's  poems  among 
the  "Sibylline  Leaves,"  under  the  title  "Lines  to  W.  L.,  Esq. 
while  he  sang  a  song  to  Purcell's  music"  [821.2  C693 — 3]. 
William  Linley  was  the  youngest  brother  of  the  three  famous 
Linley  sisters,  one  of  whom  was  the  wife  of  Richard  Brinsley 
Sheridan.  He  was  a  composer  and  author  of  some  note  and  in 
his  youth  a  charming  singer. 

The  manuscript  differs  slightly  from  the  printed  versions  and  for 
this  reason  is  reprinted  : 

"  While  my  young  cheek  preserves  its  healthful  hues 
And  I  have  many  friends,  who  hold  me  dear  — 
Linley  !  methinks,  I  would  not  often  hear 
Such  melodies  as  thine,  lest  I  should  lose 
All  memory  of  the  wrongs  and  sore  distress 
For  which  my  miserable  brethren  weep  : 
But  should  uncomforted  misfortunes  steep 
My  daily  bread  in  tears  and  bitterness, 
And  if  in  Death's  dread  moment  I  should  lie 
With  no  beloved  face  by  my  bed  side 
To  catch  the  last  glance  of  my  closing  eye 
O  God  !  such  songs  breath'd  by  my  angel  guide 
Would  make  me  pass  the  cup  of  anguish  by, 
Mix  with  the  blest,  nor  know  that  I  had  died  ! " 

(Dated) 

Donhead 

September  12,  1797. 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 


Collins,  William    Wilkie,   English    author,  born   in   London,   January 
1824,  died  in  London,  23  September,  1889. 

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Manuscript  of  '^^  The  T%vo  Destinies''''  first  published  in  Temple 
Bar  volumes  46-48,  from  January  to  September,  1876,  and  issued 
in  book  form  in  the  latter  part  of  the  same  year  [C7138 — 31] . 

The  manuscript  is  endorsed  "Presented  to  the  Buffalo  Library, 
U.  S.  A.,  by  Wilkie  Collins,  London,  23  June,  1886." 

Portrait,  engraved  on  steel  by  F.  Halpine  from  a  photograph. 


Collyer,  The  Rev.   Robert,  Unitarian  clergyman,  born  in  Keighley, 
England,  8  December,  1823. 

Letter,  dated  Chicago,  19  September,  1864,  to  Theodore  Tilton. 
The  writer  was  pastor  of  Unity  Church,  Chicago,  at  the  time  of 
this  letter,  which  gives  a  general  account  of  the  success  of  his  work 
and  some  impressions  of  existing  political  conditions.  Lincoln's 
second  election  was  pending  and  there  were  fears  among  his 
friends  that  Fremont's  candidacy  would  throw  the  election  to 
McClellan. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  George  E.  Perine  from  a  photograph. 


Cone,  Miss  Helen  Gray,  American  poet,  born  in  New  York,  8  March, 
1859,  instructor  in  English  literature  in  the  Normal  College  of  New 
York  City. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Woodnotes  from  a  cage,"  a  poem  pub- 
lished in  St.  Nicholas  for  November,  1885,  volume  13,  pt.  1, 
page  36. 

Autograph  copy  of  two  poems,  "Oberon"  and  "Puck"  which 
form  respectively  the  introductions  to  the  grave  and  gay  portions  of 
her  volume  Oberon  and  Fuck  [821.1  C7470].  The  author  gives 
May,  1885,  as  the  date  when  the  poems  were  written,  and  copied 
them  for  this  collection  17  February,  1886. 


Congreve,  William,  English  dramatist,  born  at  Bardsey,  near  Leeds,  in 
1670,  died  in  London,  19  January,  1729. 

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Manuscript  of  an  eight-line  stanza,  dated  at  Bath,  24  August, 
1728,  evidently  written  while  the  poet  was  in  that  city  with  the 
Duchess  of  Marlborough  and  the  poet  Gay  : 

"  Not  so  robust  in  body  as  in  mind 
And  allways  undejected  tho'  declined 
Not  wondering  at  the  world's  new  wicked  ways 
Compared  with  Those  of  our  Fore  father's  days 
For  Virtue  now  is  neither  more  nor  less 
And  Vice  is  only  varied  in  the  Dress 
Believe  it  Men  have  ever  been  the  same 
And  all  the  Golden  age  is  but  a  Dream." 


Conway,  The  Rev.    Moncure  Daniel,   Unitarian  clergyman,  born  at 
Middleton,  Stafford  Co.,  Va.,  17  March,  1832. 

Letter,  dated  Concord,  Mass.,  February  26,  [1863],  to  Theodore 
Tilton. 

"Your  note  was  rec'd  a  day  or  two  ago.  My  narrative  of  my  own  emancipa- 
tion and  that  of  my  father's  slaves  by  their  own  efforts,  and  our  adventures  in 
passing  under  the  Cloud  and  through  the  Sea,  has  excited  a  good  deal  of  atten- 
tion and  feeling  in  my  audiences.  So  long  as  I  have  calls  to  give  it  as  a  lecture 
as  frequently  as  now  I  shall  not  print  it.  There  is  now  a  project  on  foot  among 
some  of  the  anti-slavery  folks  of  this  region  to  send  me  over  to  England  at  this 
juncture  of  affairs  there  to  bear  a  Virginian's  testimony  concerning  American 
Slavery,  and  sketch  the  traitors,  (many  of  the  leading  ones  I  know  personally). 
So  in  that  case  I  shall  take  all  my  lectures.  But  I  tell  you  what  I  would  like 
very  much  before  I  go, —  which  will  be  early  in  April, —  and  that  is  to  give  my 
story  in  New  York.  Couldn't  I  give  it  in  Plymouth  Church  ?  I  had  rather  give  it 
there  than  in  Cheever's  where  I  gave  it  before.  Love  to  Mr.  Beecher  and  thanks 
for  his  having  uprooted  that  Weed." 


Cook,  Clarence  Chatham,  American  art  critic  and  author,  born  in  Dor- 
chester, Mass.,  8  September,  1828. 

Letter,  dated  78th  St.  [New  York]  Nov.  7th,  1861,  to  Charles 
A.  Dana.  Mr.  Dana's  differences  with  Mr.  Greeley  on  the  conduct 
of  the  civil  war  had  not  yet  caused  the  former  to  leave  the  Tribune. 
Mr.  Cook  was  at  this  time  a  member  of  the  Tribune  staff.  The 
letter  gives  an  inside  view  of  the  facts  in  the  case  commented  upon 

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by    the    Tribune    in   a   leading   article  called    *'  Good  for  stock- 
jobbers. ' ' 

Letter,  dated  11  October,  1864,  [to  Theodore  Tilton],  com- 
menting on  a  review  of  a  picture  by  Carpenter  [President  Lincoln 
signing  the  proclamation  of  emancipation]  in  the  Independent.  The 
following  extract  is  interesting  as  showing  a  protest  against  the 
theory  "art  for  art's  sake  "  made  thirty-five  years  ago. 

"  'Art '  is  not  dillettanteism  nor  make-believe  of  any  sort  —  it  is  as  wide  and 
deep  as  humanity,  and  is,  or  ought  to  be,  the  exponent  of  what  is  profoundest  in 
iiuman  experience.  The  poor,  the  sick,  the  suffering,  the  deeply  troubled  ought  to 
be  helped,  comforted,  lifted  up  by  the  artist  —  'tis  one  of  the  sweetest,  strongest 
chains  by  which  God  draws  us  to  him,  and  it  is  simply  folly  to  try  at  this  late 
day  to  take  away  from  God  this  servant  of  his  and  insist  that  he  is  no  temple- 
server,  nor  priest,  no,  nor  even  altar-boy,  but  only  a  paid  panderer  to  our  pleas- 
ures, to  the  lowest  of  them  too  —  a  hired  dancer  and  of  the  lower  sort  too.  In 
no  canting,  and  in  no  merely  sectarian  or  theologic  sense  is  this  view  to  be  fought 
against,  tooth  and  nail,  to  the  destruction  it  may  be  of  all  the  little  men  who  so 
vigorously  defend  the  trade  by  which  they  get  their  bread  and  butter  —  but  in  a 
high,  determined  spirit  as  fighting  to  gain  and  keep  for  the  side  of  Truth  and 
Goodness  one  of  God's  messengers  who  has  for  three  hundred  years  or  so  been 
made  to  serve  the  Adversary  with  too  great  diligence," 


Coolbrith,  Miss  Ina  Donna,  California  poet,  formerly  librarian  of  Oak- 
land Public  Library,  born  near  Springfield,  111. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Retrospect:    Los  Angeles,"    first    pub- 
lished in  the  Cenhtry  for  February,  1886,  volume  9,  page  536. 


Cooper,  James  Fenimore,  American  author,  born  in  Burlington,  N.  J., 
15  September,  1789,  died  in  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  14  September, 
1851. 

Manuscript  of  part  of  chapter  sixteen  of  The  Headsman,  or  The 
Abbaye  des  Vignerons''  [C777— 7]  first  published  in  1833.  The 
manuscript  is  accompanied  by  a  letter  from  Paul  F.  Cooper,  the 
son  of  the  novelist,  to  L.  B.  Proctor,  Esq.  and  a  letter  from  the 
latter  to  James  F.  Gluck  reconveying  the  manuscript  to  him. 

Portrait  engraved  by  J.  C.  Buttre  from  a  daguerreotype  by  Brady 
in  September,  1850,  in  possession  of  Mrs.  H.  F.  Phinney. 

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Cowper,  William,  English  poet,  born  at  Great  Berkhampstead,  15  No- 
vember, 1731,  died  at  East  Dereham,  25  April,  1800. 

A  long,  interesting  letter  from  the  poet  whom  Southey  called 
"the  best  of  English  letter-writers,"  dated  Weston,  25  March, 
1791  to  Lady  Hesketh,  written  the  spring  before  the  publica- 
tion of  his  translation  of  Homer.  The  letter  is  published  in 
the  fourth  volume  of  the  Bohn  edition  of  his  works  [821.2 
C876— 1]. 

Vignette  portrait,  engraved  by  H.  Robinson. 


Crabbe,  The  Rev.  George,  English  poet,  born  at  Aldeburgh,  Suffolk, 
24  December,  1754,  died  at  Trowbridge,  3  February,  1832. 

Manuscript  sermon  first  preached  at  Trowbridge,  14  August,  1825 
from  the  text  in  1  Thessalonians  iv :  1. 


Craik,  Dinah  Maria  Mulock,  Mrs.  George  Lillie  Craik,  English  author, 
born  at  Stokeham-upon-Trent,  Staffordshire,  20  April,  1826,  died 
at  Shortlands,  Kent,  12  October,  1887. 

Manuscript  of  "In  the  Happy  Valley,  by  the  author  of  John 
Halifax,  Gentleman,"  a  story  published  in  Our  Yoiaig  Folks  for 
July,  1869,  volume  5,  page  444. 


Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,  American  painter  and  poet,  born  at  Alex- 
andria, Va. ,  8  March,  1813,  died  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  20  January, 
1892. 

Manuscripts  of  the  following  poems,  "  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  ; 
The  lady's  sonnet :  Twilight ;  The  lover's  sonnet :  Midnight ; 
After-life  ;  Prince  Yousuf  and  the  Alcayde,  a  ballad,"  all  of  which 
were  published  in  his  volume  '■^  Ariel  and  Caliban,  with  other  poems 
[821.1  C89.a]. 

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Crawford,  Francis  Marion,  American  novelist,  son  of  Thomas  Craw- 
ford, the  sculptor,  born  in  Italy,  2  August,  1845. 

Signed  manuscript  of  chapters  twenty-three  and  twenty-four  of 
his  novel  A  Roman  Singer,  first  printed  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  July, 
1883 — June,  1884,  volumes  52  and  53,  afterward  published  in  book 
form  [C902— 18]. 


Curtis,  George  William,  American  author  and  reformer,  born  in  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  24  February,  1824,  died  on  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  31 
August,  1892. 

Manuscript  of  the  "  Easy  Chair  "  from  Harper' s  Monthly  for  Jan- 
uary, 1886,  volume  72,  page  315,  with  a  letter,  dated  19  Decem- 
ber, 1885,  to  Mr.  Gluck  concerning  it. 

Two  personal  letters,  dated  North  Shore,  18  and  23  October, 
1865,  to  Theodore  Tilton.  The  letters  tell  of  the  delight  of  Mr. 
Curtis's  children  over  the  gift,  from  the  author,  of  Mr.  Tilton's 
books  Golden-Haired  Gertrude,  and  The  Fly. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  C.  Buttre  from  an  early  drawing. 


Dana,  Richard  Henry,  American  author,  born  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  15 
November,  1787,  died  in  Boston,  2  February,  1879. 

Signed  autograph  copy  of  the  "Introduction  to  the  Buccaneer," 
accompanied  by  a  note,  dated  43  Chestnut  St.,  Jan.  23,  1841  to  G. 
S.  Hillard,  Esq. 

"  The  Buccaneer  "  is  Mr.  Dana's  best  known  poem  and  was  first 
published  in  1827.  It  is  included  in  Poetical  and  Prose  Writings 
[820.1  D169vl].  The  five  stanzas  of  the  Introduction  maybe 
found  in  many  collections  of  poetry. 

The  note  is  as  follows  : 

My  dear  sir  :  Making  an  autographic  exhibition  of  myself  runs  counter  to  my 
idiosyncrasy  but  I  cannot  refuse  yoic.     And  under  the  same  loving  necessity  I  send 

you  the  lines  that  you  ask  a  copy  of. 

R.   H.   D. 

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Davis,  Jefferson,  President  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  born 
in  Todd  Co.,  Kentucky,  3  June,  1808,  died  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  6 
December,  1889. 

Letter,  dated  War  Dept.,  23  December,  1854,  to  L  C.  McMahon, 
Washington,  D.  C.  Mr.  Davis  was  secretary  of  war  under  Presi- 
dent Pierce  at  this  time.  The  letter  concerns  an  official  detail 
and  is  interesting  solely  as  a  specimen  of  Mr.  Davis's  hand- 
writing. 


Davis,  Rebecca  Blaine  Harding,   Mrs.   Lemuel  Clark  Davis,  born  in 
Washington,  Pa.,  24  June,  1831. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Some  testimony  in  the  case,"  an  article 
on  the  negro  problem,  first  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for 
November,  1885,  volume  56,  page  602.  The  manuscript  is  accom- 
panied by  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Davis  to  Mr.  Aldrich,  at  that  time  the 
editor  of  the  Atlajitic  Monthly. 


De  Kay,  Charles,  American  poet  and  journalist,  for  some  years  literary 
editor  of  the  New  York  Times,  grandson  of  Joseph  Rodman  Drake, 
born  at  Washington,  D.  C,  25  July,  1848. 

Manuscript  of  an  article  on  Antoine  Louis  Barye,  written  under 
the  pseudonym  Henry  Eckford,  first  published  in  the  Century  for 
February,  1886,  volume  9,  page  483. 


DeQuincey,  Thomas,  English  author,  born  at  Greenhay,  Manchester, 
15  August,  1785,  died  at  Lasswade,  near  Edinburgh,  8  December, 
1859. 

Proof-sheets,  with  many  corrections  and  additions,  viz.:  manu- 
script and  proofs  of  the  Preface  to  "Essays  sceptical  and  anti- 
sceptical ;  "  proofs  from  "Miracles  as  subjects  of  testimony;" 
from  "Casuistry;"  from  "Greece  under  the  Romans;"  from 
"  Homer  and  the  Homeridte,"  and  thirty-four  notes,  most  of  them 

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without    address   or  signature,  according    to    DeQuincey's   habit, 
nearly  all  of  them  addressed  to  his  publishers. 

The  notes,  many  of  which  are  written  on  odd  scraps  of  paper, 
are  filled  with  side-lights  on  the  author's  physical  condition  and 
with  hints  of  his  pecuniary  difficulties.  Taken  together  they  make 
a  picture  of  DeQuincey's  existence  which  appeals  strongly  to  the 
reader's  sympathy. 

Portrait,  anonymous  steel-engraving. 


Dickens,  Charles,  English  author  born  at  387  Mile  End  Terrace, 
Commercial  Road,  Landsport,  Portsea,  7  February,  1812,  died  at 
Gadshill,  9  June,  1870. 

Manuscript  of  "  The  great  international  walking  match  of  Febru- 
ary 29th,  1868."  The  match  was  devised  by  Dickens  during  his 
trip  to  America  in  1868  and  was  managed  by  him  and  James  T. 
Fields.  The  latter  prints  this  description,  somewhat  altered  by 
the  author,  in  his  Yesterdays  with  Authors,  pages  177-183  [824.1 
F462.y]. 

A  private  letter  to  James  R.  Osgood,  from  Norwich,  March  29th, 
1867,  answering  a  proposition  to  write  for  the  new  children's  maga- 
zine published  by  Ticknor  and  Fields  and  agreeing  to  give  a  story 
of  the  length  of  Hunted  Down  for  ;^1000.  The  story,  *'  Holiday 
romance,"  was  published  in  Our  Young  Folks,  January,  March, 
April  and  May,  1868,  volume  4. 

Letter  to  Fields,  Osgood  &  Co.  from  office  of  All  the  Year 
Roufid,  March  2,  1869. 

Five  portraits:  1,  engraving,  anonymous;  2,  engraving  by 
D.  J.  Pound  from  a  photograph  by  Mayall ;  3,  engraving  by  J.  A. 
J.  Wilcox ;  4,  outline  engraving  by  C.  H.  Jeens  from  the  Maclise 
painting  of  1839  ;  5,  engraving  by  J.  C.  Buttre. 


Dickinson,  Miss  Anna  Elizabeth,  American  orator  and  reformer,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  28  October,  1842. 

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Personal  letter,  dated  Philadelphia,  May  15,  1867,  to  Theodore 
Tilton. 

Portraits:    1,   engraved  by  G.   E.   Perine ;    2,  process  cut  from 
a  photograph  by  Sarony. 


Disraeli,  Isaac,  English  author,  of  Jewish  descent,  father  of  Lord 
Beaconsfield,  born  at  Enfield,  Middlesex,  May,  1766,  died  at  Brad- 
enham  House,  Buckinghamshire,  19  January,  1848. 

Manuscript  of  a  poem,  dated  Brighton,  3  August,  1805,  "The 
English  Muse  to  Thomas  Powell,  Esq.,  on  his  having  composed 
two  comic-heroic  poems  in  English  and  in  French." 

The  English  poem  was  called  "Emma,  or  The  Baculiniad," 
the  French  "  La  Diane  au  Bain." 

Miisa  loquitur  : 
"  Unfilial  traitor  !    oft  I  hailed  thy  strain 
When  Emtna  was  the  vision  of  thy  brain  ; 
But  now  a  rebel  in  this  bold  essay  — 
Oh  crime  unknown  !  —  six  chants  en  vers frant^ais  ! 
Mine  are  these  ardours  !    all  the  fancy  mine  ! 
My  freer  genius  nerves  each  gallic  line  ; 
With  my  own  arms  thou  makest  my  Rival  strong  ; 
The  british  flame,  breaks  in  her  colder  song  ! 
Ingrate  !    these  foreign  bays  in  vain  you  boast, 
Your  crime  self-punished  views  the  glory  lost  ! 
The  applauding  Gaul  who  reads  thy  sportive  strain 
Shall  wreathe  these  vine-leaves  round  the  Muse  of  Seine  ; 
Shall  laugh  to  scorn  thy  ever-baffled  claim, 
And  eager  rase  the  impostor's  English  name" 

MUSA  ANGLICANA. 


Dodge,  Miss  Mary  Abby,  American  author,  better  known  by  her  pen- 
name,  "Gail  Hamilton,"  born  in  Hamilton,  Mass.,  in  1833,  died 
17  August,  1896. 

Signed  manuscript  of  an  essay  on  "Words,"  presented   to  Mr. 
Gluck  for  the  library  by  James  Redpath. 

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A  brilliant,  characteristic,  personal  letter,  dated  Hamilton,  Mass., 
13  November,  1869,  to  Theodore  Tilton,  beginning  as  follows: 

"  I  am  long-suffering  and  forgiving  to  a  fault  but  never,  while  reason  remains 
will  I  write  for  a  man  who  calls  me  Abigail  Dodge  i  Suppose  I  should  up  and 
call  you  Theodolite  Tilton  would  you  not  scintillate  through  three  columns  of  the 
Lidependent  \x\  a  fine  frenzy  rolling?  Generally  I  don't  answer  Abigail  letters  at 
all  —  looking  into  space  with  a  lofty  disdain." 


Dodge,  Mary  Mapes,  Mrs.  William  Dodge,  American  author,  editor  of 
St.  Nicholas,  born  in  New  York  City  in  1838. 

Autograph  copy,  signed,  of  the  second  stanza  of  the  poem 
"Heart-oracles,"  included  in  her  volume  Along  the  luay  [821.1 
D645.a]. 


Dorr,  Julia  Caroline  Ripley,  Mrs.  Seneca  R.  Dorr,  American  poet  and 
novelist,  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  13  February,  1825. 

Letter,  dated  Rutland,  Vt.,  4  August,  1886,  to  Mr.  Gluck,  accom- 
panying an  autograph  copy  of  her  poem  "  A  dream  of  songs  unsung," 
dated  4  January,  1884,  published  in  her  volume  Afternoon  Songs 
[821.1     D716.a]. 


Dorset,  Charles  Sackville,  sixth  Earl  of,  and  Earl  of  Middlesex,  English 
poet  and  courtier,  born  24  January,  1637-8,  died  at  Bath,  29  Jan- 
uary, 1706. 

Manuscript  of  two  characteristic  stanzas  called  "Another  new 
song  to  Cloris  from  the  Blind  Archer."  The  manuscript  is  from 
Alexander  Pope's  collection  and  bears  an  indorsement  by  him  of  its 
genuineness. 


Douglass,  Frederick,   Negro  journalist  and  orator,  born  at  Tuckahoe, 
Md.,  February,  1817,  died  in  Washington,  20  February,  1895. 

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Letter,  dated  Rochester,  20  June,  1863,  to  Theodore  Tilton, 
congratulating  him  on  his  anniversary  speech  on  behalf  of  the  negro 
race  and  thanking  him  for  it. 

Letter,  dated  Rochester,  15  October,  1864,  to  Theodore  Tilton, 
which  is  printed  in  full,  omitting  some  slight  closing  personalities : 

Rochester,  Oct.  15,  1804. 
y]/i'  Dear  Mr.   Tilton  : 

I  am  obliged  by  your  favor  containing  a  copy  of  your  recent  speech  in  Latimer 
hall.  I  had  read  that  speech  in  the  Tribune  several  days  ago,  and  in  my  heart 
thanked  you  for  daring  thus  to  break  the  spell  of  enchantment  which  slavery, 
though  wounded,  dying  and  despised,  is  still  able  to  bind  the  tongues  of  our 
republican  orators.  It  was  a  timely  word  wisely  and  well  spoken,  the  best  and 
most  luminous  spark  struck  from  tlie  flint  and  steel  of  this  canvass.  To  all 
appearance  we  have  been  more  ashamed  of  the  negro  during  this  canvass  than 
those  of  '56  and  '60.  The  President's  "  To  wkoja  it  may  concern,''''  frightened 
his  party  and  his  party  in  return  frightened  the  President.  I  found  him  in  this 
alarmed  condition  when  I  called  upon  him  six  weeks  ago  —  and  it  is  well  to  note  the 
time.  The  country  was  struck  with  one  of  those  bewilderments  which  dethrone 
reason  for  the  moment.  Every  body  was  thinking  and  dreaming  of  peace  —  and 
the  impression  had  gone  abroad  that  the  President's  antislavery  policy  was  about 
the  only  thing  which  prevented  a  peaceful  settlement  with  the  Rebels.  McClellan 
was  nominated  and  at  that  time  his  prospects  were  bright  as  Mr.  Lincoln's  were 
gloomy.  You  must  therefore,  judge  the  President's  words  in  the  light  of  the  cir- 
cumstances in  which  he  spoke.  Atlanta  had  not  fallen  ;  Sheridan  had  not  swept 
the  Shenandoah  —  and  men  were  ready  for  peace  almost  at  any  price.  The  Presi- 
dent was  pressed  on  every  hand  to  modify  his  letter  "  To  whom  it  may  concern  " 
—  how  to  meet  this  pressure  he  did  me  the  honor  to  ask  my  opinion.  He  showed 
me  a  letter  written  with  a  view  to  meet  the  peace  clamour  raised  against  him. 
The  first  point  made  in  it  was  the  important  fact  that  no  man  or  set  of  men 
authorized  to  speak  for  the  Confederate  Government  had  ever  submitted  a  propo- 
sition for  peace  to  him.  Hence  the  charge  that  he  had  in  some  way  stood  in  the 
way  of  peace  fell  to  the  ground.  He  had  always  stood  ready  to  listen  to  any  such 
propositions.  The  next  point  referred  to  was  the  charge  that  he  had  in  his 
Niagara  letter  committed  himself  and  the  country  to  an  abolition  war  rather  than 
a  war  for  the  union,  so  that  even  if  the  latter  could  be  attained  by  negotiation, 
the  war  would  go  on  for  Abolition.  The  President  did  not  propose  to  take  back 
what  he  had  said  in  his  Niagara  letter  but  wished  to  relieve  the  fears  of  his  peace 
friends  by  making  it  appear  that  the  thing  which  they  feared  could  not  happen 
and  was  wholly  beyond  his  power.  Even  if  I  would,  I  could  not  carry  on  the 
war  for  the  abolition  of  slavery.  The  country  would  not  sustain  such  a  war  and 
I  could  do  nothing  without  the  support  of  Congress.  I  could  not  make  the 
abolition  of  slavery  an  absolute  prior  condition  to  the  re-establishment  of  the 
union.  All  that  the  President  said  on  this  point  was  to  make  manifest  his  want 
of  power  to  do  the  thing  which  his  enemies  and  pretended  friends  professed  to  be 

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afraid  he  would  do.  Now  the  question  he  put  to  me  was  "  Shall  I  send  forth  this 
letter?"  To  which  I  answered  "  Certainly  not."  It  would  be  given  a  broader 
meaning  than  you  intend  to  convey  —  it  would  be  taken  as  a  complete  surrender 
of  your  antislavery  policy  —  and  do  you  serious  damage.  In  answer  to  your 
Copperhead  accusers  your  friends  can  make  this  argument  of  your  want  of  power 

—  but  you  cannot  wisely  say  a  word  on  that  point.  I  have  looked  and  feared 
that  Mr.  Lincoln  would  say  something  of  the  sort,  but  he  has  been  perfectly  silent 
on  that  point  and  I  think  will  remain  so.  But  the  thing  which  alarmed  me  most 
was  this:  The  President  said  he  wanted  some  plan  devised  by  which  we  could 
get  more  of  the  slaves  within  our  lines.  He  thought  that  now  was  their  time  — 
and  that  such  only  of  them  as  succeeded  in  getting  within  our  lines  7vould  be  free  after 
the  war  is  over.  This  shows  that  the  President  only  has  faith  in  his  proclamations 
of  freedom  during  the  war  and  that  he  believes  their  operation  will  cease  with  the 
war.     We  were  long  together  and  there  was  much  said  —  but  this  is  enough. 

I  gave  my  address,  To  the  People  of  the  U.  S.,  to  the  Committee  appointed  to 
publish  the  Minutes  of  the  Convention.  It  is  too  lengthy  for  a  newspaper 
article  though  of  course  I  should  be  very  glad  to  see  it  noticed  in  the  Independent. 
You  may  not  be  aware  that  I  do  not  see  the  Independent  now-a-days.  It  was 
discontinued  several  months  ago.  If  you  were  not  like  myself  taxed  on  every 
hand  both  by  your  own  disposition  to  give  and  the  disposition  of  others  to  ask 
I  should  ask  you  to  send  me  the  Independent  for  one  year  on  your  own  account. 

We  had  Anna  Dickinson  here  on  Thursday  night.  Her  speech  made  a  pro- 
found impression.  Nothing  from  Phillips,  Beecher  or  yourself  could  have  been 
more  eloquent,  and  in  her  masterly  handling  of  statistics  she  reminded  one  of 
Horace  Mann  in  his  palmiest  days.  I  never  listened  to  her  with  more  wonder. 
One  thing  however  I  think  you  can  say  to  her,  if  you  ever  get  the  chance,  for  it 
ought  to  be  said  and  she  will  hear  it  and  bear  it  from  you,  as  well  or  better  than 
from  most  other  persons,  and  that  is  Stop  that  walking.     She  walked  incessantly 

—  back  and  forth  —  from  one  side  the  broad  platform  to  the  other.  It  is  a  new 
trick  and  one  which  I  neither  think  useful  or  ornamental  but  really  a  defect  and 
disfigurement.  She  would  allow  me  to  tell  her  so,  I  think,  because  she  knows  how 
sincerely  I  appreciate  both  her  wonderful  talents  and  her  equally  wonderful  devo- 
tion to  the  cause  of  my  enslaved  race. 

I  am  not  doing  much  in  this  Presidential  Canvass  for  the  reason  that  Repub- 
lican committees  do  not  wish  to  expose  themselves  to  the  charge  of  being  the 
"  Niggar  "  party.  The  negro  is  the  deformed  child  which  is  put  out  of  the  room 
when  company  comes.  I  hope  to  speak  some  after  the  election,  though  not  much 
before,  and  I  am  inclined  to  think  I  shall  be  able  to  speak  all  the  more  usefully 
because  I  have  had  so  little  to  say  during  the  present  canvass.  I  now  look  upon 
the  election  of  Mr.  Lincoln  as  settled.  When  there  was  any  shadow  of  a  hope 
that  a  man  of  more  decided  antislavery  convictions  and  policy  could  be  elected, 
I  was  not  for  Mr.  Lincoln,  but  as  soon  as  the  Chicago  convention  my  mind  was 
made  up  and  it  is  made  up  still.  All  dates  changed  with  the  nomination  of 
McClellan. 

I  hope  that  in  listening  to  Mr.  Stanton's  version  of  my  visit  to  the  President 
you  kept  in  mind  something  of  Mr.    Stanton's  own  state  of  mind  concerning 

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public  affairs.  I  found  him  in  a  very  gloomy  state  of  mind,  much  less  hopeful 
than  myself,  and  yet  more  cheerful  than  I  expected  to  find  him.  I  judge  from 
your  note  that  he  must  have  imparted  somewhat  of  the  hue  of  his  own  mind 
to  my  statements.  He  thinks  far  less  of  the  President's  honesty  than  I  do,  and 
far  less  of  his  antislavery  than  I  do.  I  have  not  yet  come  to  think  that  honesty 
and  politics  are  incompatible. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  H.  Ritchie  from  a  photograph. 


Dryden,  John,  English  poet,  born  at  Aldwinkle  All  Saints,  Northamp- 
tonshire, 9  August,  1631,  died  in  London,  1  May,  1700. 

Signed  manuscript  of  the  famous  epistle  "To  my  dear  friend 
Mr.  Congreve  on  his  Comedy  called  the  '  Double  Dealer.'  " 

Congreve's  comedy  was  first  played  in  November,  1693  but  with- 
out the  popular  favor  that  might  have  been  anticipated  from  Dry- 
den's  almost  fulsome  praises. 

The  "epistle  "  is  reproduced  in  good  editions  of  Dryden  \e.  g.: 
821.2     D799—lv2w- 821.2     D799— 2vll]. 

2  engraved  portraits,  nameless. 


Dumas,  Alexandre,  French  novelist  and  dramatist,  born  at  Villers- 
Cotterets  (Aisne),  24  July,  1803,  died  at  Puits  near  Dieppe,  5 
December,  1870. 

Short  letter  without  place  or  date,  giving  a  very  good  specimen 
of  the  great  novelist's  handwriting  and  signature. 


Eastman,  Elaine  Goodale,  Mrs.  Charles  Eastman,  American  author 
and  teacher,  born  in  Mount  Washington,  Mass.,  9  October, 
1863. 

Letter,  dated  Hampton,  Va.,  28  December,  1885,  to  Mr.  Gluck, 
interesting  only  as  an  autograph. 

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Edgeworth,  Miss  Maria,  novelist,  English  by  birth  and  family,  Irish 
by  residence  and  sympathy,  born  at  Black  Bourton,  Oxfordshire, 
1  January,  1767,  died  at  Edgevvorthstown,  22  May,  1849. 

Letter,  dated  Edgevvorthstown,  80  June,  1846,  to  "Messrs.  T. 
Robinson  &  Sons,  Charleston,  North  America." 

The  letter  is  a  request  for  the  transmission,  by  the  gentlemen  to 
whom  it  is  addressed,  of  a  package  of  Miss  Edgeworth' s  own  writings 
to  her  nephew,  R.  L.  Edgeworth,  resident  in  America.  Though 
the  author  was  seventy-nine  at  this  time,  the  writing  is  most 
legible  and  steady  and  the  letter  very  clearly  and  pleasantly 
worded. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  the  original  painting  by  Chappell. 
Biographers  agree,  however,  that  no  portrait  of  Miss  Edgeworth 
was  ever  taken  and  that  all  so-called  portraits  of  her  are  purely 
fancy  productions. 


Edwards,    Miss    Amelia    Blandford,     English    traveller,    author   and 
archaeologist,  born  in  1831,  died  in  London,  15  April,  1892. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Monsieur  Maurice,  a  novelette  by  the 
author  of  '  Barbara's  History,'  etc."  Written  and  first  published 
[E261— 8]  in  1873  and  presented  28  February,  1887,  to  Mr.  Gluck 
for  the  library. 


Eggleston,  The  Rev.  Edward,  American  author  and  clergyman,  born  in 
Vevay,  Ind.,  10  December,  1837. 

Manuscript  of  "  A  school  of  long  ago,"  published  in  St.  Nicholas 
for  July,  1885,  volume  12,  pt.  2,  page  643. 


Eliot,  George,  originally  Mary  Ann  (or  Marian)  Evans,  afterward  Mrs. 
George    Henry    Lewes,   later    Mrs.   John    William   Cross,   English 

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novelist,    born    in    Warwickshire,    22    November,    1819,    died    in 
London,  22  December,  1880. 

Letter,  dated  The  Heights,  Witley  near  Godalming,  8  June, 
1879,  to  Mr.  Triibner,  concerning  some  proof  errors  in  Theophrastiis 
Such. 

2  portraits:  1,  etching  by  E.  A.  Fowle  ;  2,  etching  by  S.  A. 
Schoff. 


Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,   American  author  and  philosopher,  born    in 
Boston,  25  May,  1803,  died  in  Concord,  Mass.,  27  April,  1882. 

Signed  manuscript  of  Representative  men  :  seven  lectures. 

Francis  H.  Underwood  preserved  the  manuscript  and  it  bears  the 
following  inscription  in  his  handwriting:  "This  volume  is  made 
up  of  the  original  manuscripts  sent  to  the  press  by  the  illustrious 
author.  The  handwriting  is  well  known  and  the  autograph  is  a 
sufficient  attestation.  The  manuscripts  were  preserved  by  me  while 
in  the  employ  of  the  publishers  of  the  works  of  Emerson,  Messrs. 
Phillips,  Sampson  &  Co.,  between  1853  and  1859. 

Boston,  Dec.  7,  1873." 

The  manuscript  shows  traces  of  the  author's  habits  of  composition, 
for  nearly  every  page  is  scored  and  interlined  with  changes.  Whole 
paragraphs,  whole  pages  in  some  cases,  are  scored  out,  sometimes 
to  appear  again  in  another  connection,  sometimes  to  be  rejected 
entirely.  The  altered  paging  shows  plainly  the  expansion  of 
thought  as  the  subject  was  longer  considered.  The  two  earliest 
essays  are  much  more  added  to  than  the  later  ones.  The  lectures 
were  first  delivered  during  the  winter  of  1845-46,  beginning  11 
December,  before  the  Boston  Lyceum,  in  the  Odeon.  They  were  also 
delivered  during  Mr.  Emerson's  second  visit  to  England,  in  1847- 
48,  at  the  Athenreum,  Manchester,  and  were  first  published  in  July, 
1850,  since  when  they  have  been  often  reprinted  [824.1  E53.r]. 

4  portraits:  1,  steel-engraving  by  J.  A.  J.  Wilcox;  2,  wood- 
engraving  by  T.  Cole  from  a  drawing  by  Wyatt  Eaton  ;  3,  4,  steel- 
engravings,  nameless. 

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Fawcett,  Edgar,  American  novelist  and  poet,  born  in  New  York  City, 
26  May,  1847. 

Original  manuscript  of  story  "  Sister  Dorothy." 

Manuscript  of  "  Irony,"  a  poem  published  in  his  moXvivcvq  Ro77iance 
am/ J^everj,  page  121  [821.1   F278.r]. 

Manuscript  of  poem  "  My  echo." 


Field,  Miss  Mary  Katherine  Kemble,  better  known  as  "Kate  Field," 
American  journalist  and  author,  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  in  1838, 
died  in  Honolulu,  19  May,  1896. 

Letter,    dated    Tremont    House,    Boston,    November   6,    1862, 
accompanying  an  article  submitted  to  the  editor  of  the  Independent. 


Fields,  Annie  Adams,    Mrs.    James  Thomas  Fields,    born    in   Boston, 
Mass.,  1834. 

Signed  manuscripts  of  two  poems,  "To  the  poetess"  and 
"  Theocritus  "  ;  published  in  her  volume  Under  the  Olive,  pages  13 
and  121  [821.1   F461.u]. 


Fields,  James  Thomas,  American  publisher,  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
31  December,  1816,  died  in  Boston,  24  April,  1881. 

Letter,  dated  Boston,  August  27,  1860,  to  Bayard  Taylor,  concern- 
ing the  publication  of  the  blue  and  gold  edition  of  Taylor's  poems. 

Note,  dated  office  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  Boston,  May  28, 
1867,  to  Theodore  Tilton,  telling  him  that  his  article,  "The 
mystery  of  nature,"  is  accepted  for  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  will 
appear  as  soon  as  a  good  ])lace  can  be  found  for  it. 

Manuscript  of  extracts  from  a  lecture  on  Shelley  : 

"There  is  an  unpublished  Ariette  for  music,  which  Shelley  wrote  to  a  lady 
singiny  to  her  accompaniment  on  the  guitar,  which  seems  to  me  one  of  the  most 

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perfect  songs  that  ever  dropped  out  of  a  poet's  heart.  Every  word  falls  into  its 
place  as  if  born  to  fit  it.  Nothing  can  be  conceived  more  faultless  in  finish  and 
it  alone  would  give  its  author  high  place  as  a  lutanist  in  verse  if  he  had  only 
achieved  this  one  melody. 


'  As  the  moon's  soft  splendor 
O'er  the  faint  cold  starlight  of  heaven  is  thrown 
So  thy  voice  most  tender 
To  the  strings  without  soul  has  given  its  own. 


The  stars  will  awaken 

Though  the  moon  sleep  a  full  hour  later  tonight 

No  leaf  will  be  shaken 

Whilst  the  dews  of  thy  melody  scatter  delight.' 


One  day  the  teacher  of  Laura  Bridgman,  the  deaf,  dumb  and  blind  girl,  was 
endeavoring  to  explain  to  her  the  difference  between  the  material  and  the  imma- 
terial and  he  used  the  word  soul. 

•  What  is  soul  ? '  inquired  the  poor  child. 

'That  which  thinks,  feels,  hopes  and  loves,'  responded  the  teacher. 

'  And  it  aches  too  sometimes — -don't  it?'  eagerly  questioned  the  poor  girl  ! 

'Yes,  Laura,'  that  is  the  penalty  people  have  to  pay  for  possessing  a  soul: 
it  will  ache  sometimes  as  Shelley  discovered  very  early  in  his  mortal  pilgrim- 
age." 


Note  from  a  lecture  on  Longfellow  : 

"  I  remember  how  instantaneously  in  the  year  1839  The  Voices  of  the  Night  sped 
triumphantly  on  its  way  !  how  it  ran  from  house  to  house :  how  it  was  quoted  at 
the  iireside  and  in  the  pulpit,  in  the  cabin  and  in  the  forecastle  :  how  men  and 
women  ready  to  perish  got  hold  of  it  and  from  those  deep  cisterns  of  hope  and 
confidence  and  love  drew  something  that  quenched  despair  and  gave  them  heart 
for  any  fate  ! 

What  I  claim  for  Longfellow  is  a  high  and  honorable  place  in  the  poetical  and 
prose  literature  of  this  century  ;  a  rank  with  some  of  the  great  spirits  who  still 
rule  us  from  their  urns  :  a  fame  sound  and  enduring,  a  name  that  can  never  die 
out  of  the  annals  of  English  literature  and  language.  I  find  in  him  those  price- 
less qualities  of  excellence  which  the  world  having  once  recognized  never  forgets 
or  ceases  to  regard  with  affection.  Longfellow  interposes  no  difficulties  in  the 
strait  line  to  his  reader's  understanding." 

Portrait,  wood-engraving. 

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Fiske,  John,  American  evolutionist  and  historian,  born  at  Hartford, 
Conn.,  80  March,  1842. 

Review  of  James  T.  Fields :  Biographical  Notes  and  Personal 
Sketches  [928.1  F.46.f]  written  for  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  pub- 
lished in  the  number  for  January,  1882,  volume  49,  page  134. 

Portrait,  wood -engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Foote,  Mary  Anna  Hallock,  Mrs.  Arthur  De  Wint  Foote,  American 
author  and  artist,  born  at  Milton-on-the-Hudson,  N.  Y.,  19  No- 
vember, 1847. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "A  cloud  on  the  mountain,"  a  short 
story  first  published  in  the  Century  for  November,  1885,  volume  9, 
page  28,  afterward  republished  in  her  volume  In  Exile  and  Other 
Stories  [F689  — 3]. 

Wood-engraving,  "  Ruth  Mary  stood  on  the  high  river-bank,"  en- 
graved by  T.  Cole  from  a  drawing  by  the  author  illustrating  the  story. 


Forster,  John,  English  historian  and  biographer,  born  at  Newcastle,  2 
April,  1812,  died  in  Kensington,  2  February,  1876. 

Letter,  dated  London,  16  March,  1869,  to  Fields,  Osgood  &  Co., 
announcing  that  the  first  volume  of  Forster' s  Life  of  Landor  has 
been  sent  to  them  with  the  idea  that  they  might  possibly  wish  to 
issue  an  American  edition.  Mr.  Forster  writes,  "As  you  will  pub- 
lish with  my  authority  you  must  excuse  my  making  it  a  condition 
that  no  change  of  any  kind  how  minute  soever  is  to  be  made  in  my 
text."  The  American  edition  [928.2  L.235.f]  which  was  issued 
in  1869,  in  one  volume,  instead  of  the  English  two,  nevertheless 
follows  American  forms  of  spelling. 


Franklin,  Benjamin,  American  statesman,  born  in  Boston,  17  January, 
1706,  died  in  Philadelphia,  17  April,  1790. 

Letter,   dated   London,    3    August,   1772,   to   Noble  Wimberley 
Jones,  Esq.,  of  Georgia.     The  letter  was  written  while  Franklin, 

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as  agent  for  Pennsylvania,  Massachusetts,  New  Jersey  and  Georgia, 
was  in  London  to  obtain  redress  of  grievances  and  wrongs,  and  is 
as  follows  : 

Dear  Sir  : 

On  my  late  Return  from  the  Country  I  found  your  Favour  of  March  18  whicli 
had  been  left  by  Mr.  Stephens.  I  have  not  since  seen  him  but  shall  be  glad  of 
any  Opportunity  of  seeing  him  on  your  recommendation.  I  see  by  the  Papers 
that  your  new  Assembly  is  dissolved.  I  am  concerned  at  the  uncomfortable 
Train  your  public  Affairs  have  lately  taken,  but  hope  it  cannot  long  continue. 
You  will  see  by  the  enclosed  that  the  Lords  of  the  Council  have  not  favoured  our 
Petition.  It  was  difficult  to  get  them  to  give  a  Hearing  to  an  Affair  which  they 
had  before  considered  and  determined.  There  is  supposed  to  be  a  Change 
intended  in  the  American  Administration  here.  If  it  takes  place  I  apprehend  our 
Affairs  must  receive  some  Advantage  since  we  can  scarce  have  a  Minister  less 
favourable  to  our  Interests  than  the  present.  With  great  and  sincere  Esteem  I 
have  the  Honor  to  be  Sir  your  most  obedient  and  most  hum.  Servant 

B.   FRANKLIN. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  H.  Wright  Smith  from  portrait  by 
Cochin,  1777. 


Fremont,  Jessie  Ann  Benton,  the  daughter  of  Senator  Thomas  Hart 
Benton  and  the  wife  of  Gen.  John  C.  Fremont,  American  author, 
born  in  Virginia,  in  1824. 

Manuscript  of  "American  midshipmen  at  the  tomb  of  Napo- 
leon," a  sketch  first  published  in  the  Wide  Awake  for  May,  1886, 
in  the  Chautau(]ua  Young  Folks  Reading  Union  department,  page 
128,  volume  22,  afterward  reprinted  in  her  volume  Souvenirs  of 
My  Time  [923.1   F.885]. 


Frothingham,  The  Rev.  Octavius  Brooks,  American  clergyman,  born  in 
Boston,  26  November,  1822,  died  in  Boston,  27  November,  1895. 

Letter,  dated  April  27th  [no  year],  to  Theodore  Tilton,  interest- 
ing as  an  example  of  the  very  characteristic  handwriting  of  the 
author. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  from  a  photograph. 

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Gilder,  Richard  Watson,  American  poet,  since  the  year  1881  editor- 
in-chief  of  the  Century,  born  in  Bordentown,  N.  J.,  8  Febru- 
ary, 1844. 

Signed  manuscript  of  the  poem  "Recognition"  published  as 
the  opening  of  the  third  part  of  his  volume  The  Celestial  Passioji, 
page  45  [821.1  G4686.c]  and  afterward  included  in  the  collection 
of  his  various  smaller  books  called  Five  Books  of  Song,  page  54 
[821.1  G4686.f]. 

The  manuscript  is  endorsed  by  the  author  "the  first  incomplete 
draft"  and  varies  somewhat  from  the  printed  version.  With  the 
author's  permission  it  is  printed  in  full  as  giving  an  opportunity  for 
interesting  observation  of  the  poet's  method. 


"RECOGNITION. 

I. 

In  waking  visions  of  the  awful  night 

This  I  beheld :    Stark  space  and  therein  God, 

God  who  in  dual  nature  doth  abide  — 

Love,  and  the  Loved  One,  Power  and  Beauty's  self ; 

And  forth  from  God  did  come  —  with  dreadful  thrill 

Creation,  boundless,  to  the  eye  unformed 

And  white  with  fire  and  light  ineffable 

And  outward  pulsings  like  the  boreal  flame : 

One  mighty  cloud  it  seemed,  nor  star,  nor  earth, 

Or  like  some  nameless  growth  of  tKe  under-seas  ; 

Creation  dumb,  to  the  eye  unconscious,  yet  alive 

With  swift,  concentric,  never-ceasing  urge  — 

Resolving  gradual  to  one  disk  of  fire. 

And  as  I  looked,  behold  !  the  flying  rim 

Grew  separate  from  the  centre ;  this  again  divided 

And  the  whole  still  swift  revolved 

Ring  within  ring,  and  fiery  wheel  in  wheel  ; 

Till,  sudden  or  slow  as  chanced,  the  outmost  edge 

Whirled  into  fragments,  each  a  separate  sun. 

With  lesser  globes  attendant  on  its  flight. 

These  while  I  gazed  turned  dark  with  smouldering  fires 

And,  slow  contracting,  grew  to  solid  orbs. 

Then  knew  I  that  this  planetary  world. 

Cradled  in  light  and  curtained  with  the  dawn 

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And  starry  eve,  was  born  ;  though  in  itself 
Perfect,  and  O  most  fair,  yet  but  a  part 
And  atom  of  the  living  universe. 


II. 

Unconscious  still  the  child  of  the  conscious  God, 
Creation,  born  of  Beauty  and  of  Love, 
Beauty  the  womb  and  mother  of  all  worlds. 
But  soon  with  silent  speed  the  new-made  earth 
Swept  near  me  where  I  watched  the  birth  of  things, 
Its  greatening  bulk  eclipsing,  star  by  star. 
Half  the  bright  heavens.     Then  I  beheld  crawl  forth 
Upon  the  earth's  cool  crust  most  wondrous  forms 
Wherein  were  hid,  in  transmutation  strange, 
Sparks  of  the  ancient,  never-ceasing  fire  ; 
Shapes  moved  not  solely  by  exterior  law 
But  having  will  and  motion  of  their  own, — 
First  sluggish  and  minute,  then  by  degrees 
Horrible,  monstrous  and  enorm,  without 
Intelligence.     Then  other  forms  more  fine 
Streamed  ceaseless  on  my  sight  until  at  last 
Rising  and  turning  its  slow  gaze  about 
Across  the  abysmal  void,  the  mighty  child 
Of  the  supreme,  divine  Omnipotence  — 
Creation,  born  of  God,  by  him  begot. 
Conscious  in  Man,  no  longer  blind  and  dumb. 
Beheld  and  knew  its  father  and  its  God." 

Signed  manuscript  of  poem,  "Failure  and  success,"  an  eight- 
line  stanza  published  in  his  Two  Worlds  and  Olher  Poems  and 
afterward  included  in  his  Five  Books  of  Song,  page  162  [821.1 
G4686.f]. 


Gladstone,  William  Ewart,  English  statesman,  born  at  Liverpool,  29 
December,  1809,  died  at  Hawarden  Castle,  19  May,  1898. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Russia  and  England,"  a  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  Nineteenth  Century  for  March,  1880,  volume  7, 
page  538,  in  review  of  Mme.  Novikofif's  book  jRussia  and  Eng- 
land, by  O.  K. 

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Godwin,    Parke,  American  journalist  and  author,  son-in-law  of  William 
Cullen  Bryant,  born  in  Paterson,  N.  J.,  25  February,  1816. 

Letter,  dated  Roslyn,  Long  Island,  June  26,  1871,  to  Theodore 
Tilton,  as  follows  : 

"Your  letter  is  persuasive  enough  to  extract  fire  from  a  cucumber;  but 
unfortunately  I  am  less  susceptible  than  even  that  proverbial  esculent.  I  am  so 
many  years  behindhand  with  my  book  (long  promised)  that  I  allow  myself  no 
time  for  anything  else  —  except  getting  ill  at  times.  Besides  I  wrote  all  I  had  to 
say  on  Free  Trade  twenty  years  ago  in  the  old  Democratic  Review  and  so  much 
better  than  I  could  write  it  now  that  I  should  hate  to  provoke  any  comparisons 
on  the  part  of  ancient  friends  by  any  new  adventures.  Still,  if  I  ever  should  get 
time  to  think  of  matters  later  than  the  twelfth  century,  I  would  more  willingly 
write  for  the  Golden  Age  than  for  elsewhere." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  from  a  drawing  by  T.  Hicks. 


Godwin,    William,    English   author,  born    at    Wisbeach,    Cambridge- 
shire, 3  March,  1756,  died  in  London,  7  April,  1836. 

Letter,   in   third   person,   to   Effingham  Wilson,  Esq.,    in   1830, 
announcing  the  publication  of  Thoughts  on  Man. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving,  anonymous. 


Gosse,  Edmund  William,  English  author,  born  in  London,  21  Septem- 
ber, 1849. 

Original  manuscript  of  a  poem  called  "  Simimer  flies  "  with  the 
following  note  to  Richard  Watson  Gilder  on  the  manuscript : 

Dear  Gilder 

Eh? 
Yours 

E.  G. 
25.7.85. 

The  poem  was  first  published  under  the  title  "Circling  fancies  " 
in  the  Century  for  June,  1896,  volume  10,  page  259,  and  afterward 

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included    in  Mr.  Gosse's  volume  In  Russet  and  Silver,  page    85 
[821.2  G678.i]. 


Grant,  Ulysses  Simpson,  eighteenth  president  of  the  United  States, 
born  at  Point  Pleasant,  Ohio,  27  April,  1822,  died  at  Mt. 
McGregor,  N.  Y.,  23  July,  1885. 

Personal  letter,  dated  Long  Branch,  N.  J.,  3  August,  1884,  to 
Gen.  James  Grant  Wilson  : 

"  I  have  your  letter  of  yesterday.  On  account  of  my  continued  lameness  I  will 
not  be  able  to  attend  the  reunion  of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee 
this  year. 

I  have  completed  two  of  the  four  articles  on  the  war  that  I  promised  the  Cen- 
tury Magazine,  Shiloh  and  Vicksburg.  The  Wilderness  Campaign  —  and  that  is 
to  be  followed  by  one  on  the  closing  scenes  of  the  war  —  is  commenced." 

Facsimiles:  of  Gen.  Grant's  letter  to  Gen.  Buckner  at  Fort 
Donelson,  Feb.  16th,  1862  ;  of  Gen.  Grant's  pass  to  Chas.  New- 
comb  through  the  lines  towards  Hankerson's  Ferry,  June  29,  1863  ; 
of  Grant's  Commission  as  Lieutenant  General  in  the  United  States 
Army,  March  10,  1864  ;  of  Grant's  letter  to  Gen.  Sherman  on  the 
fall  of  Atlanta,  Sept.  4th,  1864. 

Portraits,  engravings  from  photographs,  two  by  H.  B.  Hall,  Jr., 
one  anonymous. 


Gray,  Thomas,  English  poet,  born  at  Cornhill,  London,  26  December, 
1716,  died  at  Cambridge,  England,  30  July,  1771. 

Manuscript  of  Latin  notes  of  natural  history  observations. 

Title  page  of  M.  d'Anville's  Notice  de  V  ancienne  Gaule,  with 
autograph  and  memoranda  by  the  poet. 

Fac-simile  of  "Elegy,  written  in  a  country  churchyard,"  illus- 
trated with  a  view  of  Stoke  Poges  church  etched  by  C.  J.  Smith 
from  a  drawing  by  De  Cort  in  1790. 

Fac-simile  of  a  letter  to  Mr.  Dodsley. 

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Numbers  of  the  London  Chronicle  for  Aug.  12-15,  1775,  and 
for  Aug.  15-17,  1775,  containing  ''  Some  account  of  the  Life  and 
Writings  of  Mr.  Gray  extracted  from  the  Memoirs  just  published 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mason." 

3  portraits:  1,  engraved  by  Holl ;  2,  engraved  by  J.  Hopwood 
from  the  original  painting,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  by  Richardson  ; 
3,  medallion  engraving  by  H.  W.  Smith. 


Greeley,  Horace,  American  author  and  journalist,  born  in  Amherst, 
N.  H.,  3  February,  1811,  died  in  Pleasantville,  near  New  York 
City,  29  November,  1872. 

Manuscript  signed  '*  H.  G.,"  Preface  to  Essays  designed  to  eluci- 
date the  science  of  Political  Economy,  dated  Dec.  1,  1869,  published 
by  Ticknor  and  Fields,  1870  [330  44]. 

Letter,  dated  office  of  the  Tribune,  New  York,  July  10,  1865, 
to  Theodore  Tilton. 


"I  suppose  I  must  stop  writing  for  you  under  the  vote  of  today  ;  tho'  /don't 
believe  the  Tribune  has  one  less  subscriber  today  for  all  I've  written  for  the  Inde- 
pendent. However  I  shall  slip  in  an  article  now  and  then  without  my  name,  for 
I  presume  the  name  is  the  trouble.  I  don't  think  writing  good  articles  for  other 
papers  does  hurt  ;  if  I  wrote  bad  ones  it  might." 


Letter,    dated    New   York    Tribune    office,    Dec.    16,   1871,   to 
F.  N.  Burdick,  Labor  Tribune,  Philadelphia. 


My  dear  Sir  : 

I  have  yours  of  the  iith  inst.     I  must  answer  briefly. 

I  judge  myself  an  older  man  than  you  and  therefore  less  hopeful  of  the  imme- 
diate future.  You  seem  to  think  that  uprightness  in  politics  will  win  as  a  rule  ; 
I  am  not  sure  of  that.  You  judge  the  hired  laborers  in  favor  of  Reform  ;  I  hold 
the  most  of  them  intensely  Conservative  and  hopeless  of  improvement.  Did 
they  ever  even  7ciis/i  to  have  slavery  abolished?  Yet  slavery  would  not  permit 
labor  to  be  respected.  I  heartily  wish  my  name  had  never  been  connected  with 
the  Presidency.     I  see  plainly  that  it  can  only  result  in  vexation  and  misappre- 

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hension.  And  I  shall  never  shape  and  groove  my  opinions  to  make  myself 
acceptable  to  any  party.  So  far  as  the  Labor  party  seems  to  me  right,  I  approve 
and  commend  its  propositions  but  no  further  for  twenty  offices. 

Yours,  HORACE  GREELEY. 

Portraits:     1,  engraved  from  a  photograph.     2,  mezzo-tint  from 
a  drawing  by  J.  Ruger,  Brooklyn. 


Guizot,  Fran(,ois  Pierre  Guillamne,  French  historian  and  statesman, 
born  at  Nimes,  4  October,  1787,  died  at  Val  Richer  in  Normandy, 
12  September,  1874. 

Letter,  dated  8  January,  1846,  from  the  Cabinet  of  the  Ministcre 
des  Affaires  Etrangeres,  to  a  colleague. 


Hale,  The  Rev.   Edward   Everett,    American  author  and    clergyman, 
born  in  Boston,  3  April,  1822. 

Manuscript  of  an  article  on  the  "  Chautauqua  Literary  and  Scien- 
tific Circle,"  published  in  the  Century  for  November,  1885, 
volume  9,  page  147. 


Hale,  Sarah  Josepha  Buell,  Mrs.  David  Hale,  American  author,  for 
many  years  editor  of  Godey'' s  Lady'' s  Book,  born  in  Newport, 
N.  H.,  24  October,  1788,  died  in  Philadelphia,  30  April,  1879. 

Autograph  stanza,  dated  Philadelphia,  24  March,  1854 : 

"  What  might  a  single  mind  may  wield 
With  Truth  for  sword  and  Faith  for  shield 

And  Hope  to  lead  the  way  ! 
Thus  all  great  triumphs  are  obtained  — 
From  evil  good  —  as  God  ordained 

The  night  before  the  day." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  W.   G.   Armstrong  from  the   painting  by 
W.  B.  Chambers. 

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Haliburton,  Thomas  Chandler,  Canadian  judge,  and  author  known  by 
his  pen  name  "  Sam  Slick,"  born  in  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1797, 
died  at  Isleworth,  England,  27  August,  1865. 

Letter,  dated  Gordon  House,  Isleworth,  June  19th,  1865,  to 
person  unknown.  The  letter  expresses  thanks  for  the  gift  of  a  book 
and  accepts  the  dedication  of  the  second  edition. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  by  N.  Orr. 


Hamilton,  Alexander,  American  statesman,  born  on  the  island  of 
Nevis,  West  Indies,  11  January,  1757,  died  in  New  York  City,  12 
July,  1804. 

Manuscript  of  a  bill  of  costs  in  the  New  York  Supreme  Court, 
October,  1784,  with  a  letter  from  his  son,  James  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton, to  Ticknor  and  Fields,  accompanying  the  gift. 

Circular  letter,  from  the  Treasury  Department,  8  June,  1792, 
to  the  Collectors.  A  formal  letter  from  Hamilton,  as  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury,  as  to  the  construction  to  be  placed  upon  certain 
sections  of  the  Collection  Law. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  W.  G.  Jackman,  from  the  painting 
by  L.  W.  Gibbs. 


Hamilton,  Sir  William,   diplomatist  and  archaeologist,  born  in  Scot- 
land, 13  December,  1730,  died  in  London,  6  April,  1803. 

Letter,  dated  Naples  24  April  1770  to  Messrs.  Hart  &  Wilkens. 

Manuscript  of  ''Loose  thoughts  relative  to  the  Two  Sicilies 
and  its  present  situation,  Palermo,  28  August,  1799."  Sir  William 
Hamilton  was  British  envoy  extraordinary  and  minister  plenipoten- 
tiary at  the  court  of  Naples  from  1764  to  April,  1800,  and  accom- 
panied the  king  and  queen  of  Naples  in  their  flight  from  Naples  to 
Palermo  in  December,  1798.  The  manuscript  appears  to  have 
been  written  during  the  period  which  he  spent  with  the  king  and 
queen  at  Palermo, 

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Harris,  Joel  Chandler,  American  author  and  journalist,  editor  of 
the  Atlanta  Constitution,  born  at  Eatonton,  Ga.,  8  December, 
1848. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Trouble  on  Lost  Mountain,"  a  story  first 
published  in  the  Century,  for  January,  1886,  volume  9,  page  425, 
afterward  included  in  his  volume  Free  Joe,  and  Other  Georgian 
Sketches  [H3145— 1] . 

Letter,  dated  Atlanta,  9  April,  1883,  to  James  R.  Osgood, 
about  the  publication  of  a  forthcoming  book  \_Niglits  with  Uncle 
Remus,  828.1  68]. 


Harris,  William  Torrey,   American  educator  and    speculative   philos- 
opher, born  at  Killingly,  Conn.,  10  September,  1835. 

Manuscript  of  an  article  on  "A  theory  of  insanity,"  published  in 
\kiQ.  Journal  of  Speculative  Philosophy  for  January,  1887,  volume  21, 
page  222. 


Harte,    Bret,  American  poet  and  novelist,  born  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  25 
August,  1839. 

Manuscript  of  "Handsome   is  as  Handsome  does  by  Ch s 

R de, "    one    of    the   author's    celebrated     Condensed    Novels 

[H327— 6] . 

Manuscript  of  a  poem  called  "Por  el  rey  :  northern  Mexico, 
1640"  published  under  the  title  "For  the  King"  in  his  volume 
Echoes  of  the  Foothills,  page  29  [821.1  H327.ec]  and  in  the  River- 
side edition  of  his  Poetical  Works  [821.1   H327— 1]. 


Hawthorne,    Julian,    American   novelist,    born    in   Boston,    22    June, 
1846. 

Signed  manuscript  of  the  story  "  The  Book  of  the  Flood." 

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Hawthorne,    Nathaniel,   American   romance   writer,    born    in    Salem, 
Mass.,  4  July,  1804,  died  in  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  18  May,  1864. 

Letter,  dated  Lenox,  June,  1851,  to  James  T.  Fields.  The 
letter  was  written  during  Hawthorne's  short  residence  at  Lenox, 
the  period  of  his  greatest  literary  activity,  just  after  the  publication 
of  The  House  of  the  Seven  Gables  and  while  the  The  Wonder  Book 
was  being  written. 


Dear  Fields  : 

I  send  you  a  letter  from  an  original  genius  which  I  have  not  hitherto  answered 
because  I  cannot  make  out  his  name.  He  speaks  of  a  book  which  he  has  sent  to 
your  care  for  me. 

If  you  have  the  book,  and  if  his  name  is  in  it  I  wish  you  would  send  him  a 
copy  of  the  Scarlet  Letter  as  he  requests  and  let  me  know  what  his  name  is.  As 
to  his  book  you  may  send  it  at  your  own  convenience  —  or  not  at  all  — just  as 
may  suit  you  best. 

I  have  just  received  a  letter  from  another  claimant  of  the  Pyncheon  estate.  I 
wonder  if  ever,  and  how  soon,  I  shall  get  at  a  just  estimate  of  how  many  jackasses 
there  are  in  this  ridiculous  world.  My  correspondent  by  the  way  estimates  the 
number  of  these  Pyncheon  Jackanapes  at  about  twenty ;  I  am  doubtless  to  be 
remonstrated  with  by  each  individual.  After  exchanging  shots  with  all  of  them  I 
shall  get  you  to  publish  the  whole  correspondence  in  a  style  corresponding  with 
that  of  my  other  works  ;  and  I  anticipate  a  great  run  for  the  volume.  This  last 
letter  fills  two  sheets. 

I  should  be  glad  of  a  certificate  of  deposit  for  Fifty  Dollars,  as  early  as  possible. 

I  hope  to  send  you  some  of  the  Wonder  Book  in  a  fortnight  or  thereabouts. 
It  grieves  me  infinitely  to  be  compelled  to  write  a  book  at  this  season  ;  but  I  shall 
put  it  through. 

Truly  yours 

NATH'L  HAWTHORNE. 

P.  S.  My  last  Pyncheon  correspondent  demands  that  another  name  be 
substituted  instead  of  that  of  the  family;  —  to  which  I  assent  in  case  the  pub- 
lishers can  be  prevailed  on  to  cancel  the  stereotype  plates.  Of  course  you  will 
consent !    Pray  do  ! 


Hay,  Col.   John,   American  author   and  diplomat.  Secretary  of  State, 
1899,  born  at  Salem,  Ind.,  8  October,  1838. 

Letter,  dated  Astor  House,  8  April,  1871,  to  James  R.  Osgood, 
giving  some    directions   concerning    the   publication    of    Castilian 

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Days  [914.6  32].     Interesting  only  as  a  specimen  of  Col.  Hay's 
handwriting. 

Letter,  dated  Legation  of  the  United  States,  Vienna,  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1868,  to  Theodore  Tilton.  The  letter  expresses  quite 
clearly  the  depth  of  Col.  Hay's  republican  convictions  after  seeing 
monarchy  at  close  quarters. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  from  a  photograph. 


Hayne,  Paul  Hamilton,  American  poet,  called  the  Laureate  of  the 
South,  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  1  January,  1830,  died  near 
Augusta,  Ga.,  6  July,  1886. 

Signed  manuscript   of   "Face  to  face,"  a  poem  published    in 
Harper's  Magazine  for  May,  1886,  volume  72,  page  884. 

Autograph    copy    of  the    third   stanza  of  his  poem   "Lyric  of 
action,"  from  his  Poe7ns,  page  285  [821.1   H423— 1]. 


Hayne,  William    Hamilton,    American    poet,    son   of  Paul    Hamilton 
Hayne,  born  in  South  Carolina,  1856. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "A  band  of  bluebirds — in  autumn,"  a 
poem  published  in  Harper's  Magazine  iox  October,  1886,  volume 
73,  page  765. 


Hazlitt,  William,  English  author,  born  in  Maidstone,  10  April,  1778, 
died  in  London,  18  September,  1830. 

Manuscript  of  a  lecture  "On  Dryden  and  Pope,"  the  fourth  of 
a  series  on  the  English  poets  delivered  in  1818  at  the  "Surrey 
Institution,"  which  afterward  came  to  be  known  as  the  "Devil's 
Pulpit."  Hazlitt's  audience  at  this  institution  was  rather  a  mixed 
multitude  with  whom  he  had  but  imperfect  sympathy.  The  course 
was  sufficiently  successful,  however,  to  induce  the  management  to 

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arrange  for  two  succeeding  courses,  on  The  English  Comic  Writers 

and  on  The  Age  of  Elizabeth. 

The  manuscript  is  interesting,  being  thirty-eight  pages  folio,  and 
is  of  value  as  Hazlitt's  "autograph  productions  are  among  the 
rarest  of  those  of  the  era  and  circle  of  which  he  made  a  part. ' ' 

The  lectures  were  first  published  in  1819  and  have  been  reprinted 
many  times  [821.2  H431]. 


Heine,  Heinrich,  German  poet,  of  Jewish  descent,  born  in  Diisseldorf, 
13  December,  1797,  died  in  Paris,  17  February,  1856. 

Note  of  four  lines,  dated  14  September,  1843,  with  signature  in 
the  French  form. 

Collection  of  newspaper  cuttings  concerning  his  life,  death  and 
genius. 

Portraits :  1,  photograph  from  a  painting  in  health  ;  2,  engrav- 
ing by  Weger  and  Singer  from  a  drawing  by  Ch.  Gleyre,  in 
sickness. 


Hemans,  Felicia  Dorothea,  daughter  of  George  Browne,  English  poet, 
born  in  Liverpool,  25  September,  1793,  died  in  Dublin,  16  May, 
1885. 

Manuscript  of  nine  songs  gathered  under  the  general  caption 
"Songs  for  Evening  Music,"  including  the  following  individual 
poems  :  "Ye  are  not  missed  fair  flowers  ;  By  a  mountain  stream  ; 
Willow  song ;  Brightly  hast  thou  fled  ;  Sing,  gondolier  !  ;  The  rock 
beside  the  sea ;  The  orange-bough  ;  Come  to  me.  Sleep  !  ;  Leave 
me  not  yet !  " 

All  the  songs  are  published  in  the  seventh  volume  of  Mrs. 
Hemans' s  Works  [821.2  H487 — 1]  but  nearly  all  of  them  have 
slight  verbal  differences  in  the  manuscript  from  the  printed  form. 

Letter,  dated  from  Dawson  St.,  post-marked  18  November, 
1833,  to  S.  C.  Hall. 

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Higginson,  The  Rev.  Thomas  Wentworth,  American  author,  born  in 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  22  December,  1823,  Colonel  of  the  first  regi- 
ment of  freed  slaves  in  the  United  States  army. 

Manuscript  of  "  How  I  was  educated,"  an  article  first  published 
in  the  Forum  for  April,  1886,  volume  2,  page  172,  afterward 
republished  in  the  collection  The  College  and  the  Church  [370  88] . 

Letter,  dated  Newport,  R.  I.,  March  19,  1868,  to  Theodore 
Tilton,  giving  some  rather  caustic  comments  on  political  persons  of 
the  day,  etc. 

Letter  dated  Newport,  R.  I.,  April  24,  1869,  to  Theodore  Tilton, 
which  is  reproduced  with  the  permission  of  the  author,  as  follows : 

Dear  Sir  : 

I  wish  it  were  in  my  power  to  attend  the  Woman's  Suffrage  meeting  at  Brook- 
lyn,    As  it  is  not  I  wish  to  call  the  attention  of  that  meeting  to  a  single  point. 

One  of  the  few  plausible  arguments  against  Woman's  Suffrage  is  the  alleged 
incapacity  of  that  sex  for  military  duty.  This  is  a  point  on  which  a  returned 
soldier  may  perhaps  speak  his  mind  frankly. 

I  honestly  believe  that  if  this  question  were  put  to  the  returned  soldiers  for 
decision,  it  would  be  decided  in  favor  of  women  two  to  one.  And  that  for  this 
plain  reason.  They  see,  if  nobody  else  does,  the  absurdity  of  disfranchising 
women  for  a  reason  which  would  equally  exclude  every  member  of  the  other 
sex  who  staid  at  home  during  the  war. 

The  great  difficulty  of  filling  up  our  wasted  regiments  showed  how  very  small 
proportion  of  our  men  are  both  able  and  willing  to  do  military  duty.  If  only 
the  bayonets  are  to  vote  they  will  make  a  very  small  oligarchy.  In  this  city,  for 
instance,  out  of  2200  legal  voters  not  400  served  in  the  war.  Are  they  to  dis- 
franchise all  the  rest  ?  Open  the  door  wide  enough  to  admit  a  single  civilian  and 
every  woman  in  the  land  has  a  right  to  walk  in.  Consider  for  instance  the  posi- 
tion of  the  most  eminent  recent  advocate  of  this  theory,  Mr.  Horace  Greeley. 
When  he  urges  the  unfitness  of  woman  to  vote  until  she  carries  a  musket  there  is 
no  discourtesy  in  asking — Does  Mr.  Greeley  propose  to  disfranchise  himself? 
Yet  what  services  did  he  render,  during  the  war,  that  an  equally  intelligent 
woman  might  not  have  rendered  ? 

I  do  not  mean  to  slight  his  services,  nor  theirs.  The  women  who  worked  in 
our  hospitals,  or  in  the  Sanitary  Commission,  were  rendering  military  service 
just  as  essentially  as  those  who  were  enrolled  in  our  armies.  Their  work  may 
not  have  been  as  dangerous,  but  it  was  quite  as  indispensable. 

What  they  did  in  this  war  they  will  do  in  the  next,  and  that  as  volunteers, 
without  bounty,  and  without  waiting  to  be  drafted.  It  is  altogether  unreasonable 
to  enfranchise  one  class  of  volunteers  and  disfranchise  another. 

Now  that  the  war  is  over,  we  shall  be  in  danger  of  forgetting  all  this.  History 
ignores  women's  services  because  men  are  commonly  the  historians.     It  is  the 

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same  with  the  arts  that  preserve  history.  We  have  a  striking  instance  of  this 
before  us  in  the  proposed  statues  which  are  to  surround  the  base  of  the  Lincoln 
monument.  Washington  has  been  the  scene  of  many  artistic  as  well  as  political 
absurdities.  But  their  climax  seems  to  me  to  have  been  reached  in  the  proposi- 
tion, now  pending,  to  represent  the  Sanitary  Commission  by  the  statue  of  a  tnan  ! 
I  am  yours  very  cordially 

THOMAS   WENTWORTII    HIGGINSON. 
Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  J.  Cade. 


Hillard,  George  Stillman,  American  lawyer,  journalist  and  author,  born 
in  Machias,  Me.,  22  September,  1808,  died  in  Boston,  21  January, 
1879. 

Signed  autograph,  dated  Boston,  March  29,  1854,  as  follows : 

"The  stately  march  of  our  laws  and  speech,  which  began  at  the  rock  of 
Plymouth,  will  ever  move  in  the  paths  of  honor  and  peace  so  long  as  it  follows 
that  great,  guiding  light  which  led  the  Pilgrims  into  their  land  of  promise." 


Hogg,   James,    called    the    Ettrick    Shepherd,    Scotch    poet,    born    at 
Ettrick,  Selkirkshire,  in  1770,  died  21  November,  1835. 

Original  manuscript  of  the  first  forty -seven  stanzas  of  "Earl 
Walter;  the  twelfth  bard's  song"  from  the  long  poem  "The 
queen's  wake." 

The  manuscript  is  accompanied  by  the  following  letter,  dated  13 
July,  1831,  to  Bernard  Barton  : 

My  dear  Sir  : 

"The  enclosed  paper  was  given  me  by  a  friend  at  college  in  1820,  who  had  it 
from  Thomas  Moore  with  a  statement  that  it  came  into  his  hands  among  other 
writings  from  James  Hogg.  The  person  who  gave  it  to  me  never  doubted  its 
authenticity. 

I  have  much  pleasure  in  presenting  it  to  you  and  am,  my  dear  sir 

Yours  faithfully 

WOODTHORPE  COLLETT." 

The  poem  is  included  in  the  Works  of  the  Ettrick  Shepherd,  page 
28  [821.2  B— H71G— 1] 

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Holmes,  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell,  American  physician  and  author,  born  at 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  29  August,  1809,  died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  7 
October,  1894. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "The  new  i)ortfolio :  a  cry  from  the 
study,"  an  article  published  in  the  Atlantic  Mon/hly  for  January, 
1886,  volume  57,  page  91. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  &  Sons  from  a  photograph. 


Hood,  Thomas,  English  poet,  born  in  London,  23  May,  1799,  died  in 
the  same  city,  3  May,  1845. 

Manuscript  of  "She  is  all  heart,"  a  poem  of  seven  stanzas 
accompanying  an  original  sketch,  probably  by  Hood  himself  though 
signed  "  M.  K." 

The  drawing  is  reproduced  in  HooiV s  Oum,  second  series,  page 
477  [828.2  29]  as  illustrating  a  prose  sketch  entitled  "Nothing 
but  hearts  !  ' ' 


Hooker,  Isabella   Beecher,  Mrs.   John   Hooker,   youngest  daughter  of 
Dr.  Lyman  Beecher,  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  22  February,  1822. 

Personal  letter,  dated  Hartford,  1  November,  1871,  to  Theodore 
Tilton. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  C.  Buttre  from  a  photograph  by  J.  A. 
Whipple. 


Howells,   William   Dean,  American  author,   born   in  Martin's  Ferry, 
Ohio,  1  March,  1837. 

Manuscript  of  A  Foregone  Conclusion,  a  novel  first  published  in 
the  Atlantic  Monthly  during  July  to  December,  1874,  volume  34, 
brought  out  the  same  year  in  book  form  [H8G — 7] . 

Portrait,  wood-engraving  from  a  photograph. 

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Hughes,  Thomas,   English  author,   born  at  Uffington,   Berkshire,   20 
October,  1823,  died  at  Brighton,  22  March,  1896. 

Letter,  dated  from  the  Athenaeum  Chib,  London,  8  November, 
1872,  to  Miss  [Elizabeth  Palmer]  Peabody. 

Dear  Miss  Peabody  : 

I  was  so  horribly  ashamed  to  get  your  note  that  I  left  it  lying  on  the  table  for 
some  hours  —  in  fact  until  I  had  gone  down  and  seen  Emerson  in  his  lodgings. 
They  are  very  comfortable  and  homely  and  much  frequented  now  by  Americans. 
I  got  them  first  for  Lowell  and  since  then  the  Miss  Hoars  have  been  in  them  and 
some  other  New  Englanders,  friends  of  the  Professor.  I  hope  Emerson  will  enjoy 
his  visit  as  he  seems  strong.  Tomorrow  he  and  his  son  are  coming  to  lunch  with 
me  in  the  Temple  and  see  the  Lord  Mayor's  Show.  What  an  occupation  for  a 
Seer  !  !  Miss  Emerson  I  am  sorry  to  say  has  sprained  her  ancle  and  cannot  get 
about.  They  only  propose  to  stay  a  few  days  and  then  to  flit  for  Italy,  but  I 
hope  will  be  back  in  the  spring  for  a  longer  sojourn.  I  am  delighted  to  hear  that 
you  are  sowing  some  of  the  dear  Prophet's  [The  Rev.  Frederick  Denison 
Maurice]  works  in  your  soil.  They  ought  to  bear  good  fruit  there.  He  used  to 
say  that  no  man's  life  sh"!  be  published  within  twenty  years  of  his  death,  Freddy 
(the  eldest  son,  whom  I  don't  think  you  know)  was  rather  impressed  with  this 
saying,  but  I  believe  (for  I  have  not  seen  him  for  some  time)  that  he  is  hard  at 
work  on  the  memoir.  If  I  can  find  a  copy  of  Subscription  no  Bondage  I  will  send 
it  you  but  I  know  it  is  very  hard  to  get,  having  indeed  no  copy  myself.  Kinder- 
garten are,  I  am  told  for  I  am  sorry  to  say  I  have  had  no  time  for  personal  search, 
making  great  progress  here.  I  got  the  pamphlet  and  quite  hold  with  you  that 
unless  Kindergarten  start  from  and  end  in  Christ  they  are  as  meaningless  as  — 
well,  a  railway  ring  or  a  gold  ring, 

I  see  you  date  from  Cambridge,  a  place  of  most  charming  memories  to  me,  but 
I  don't  remember  Totten  Street,  I  have  a  photograph  of  Elmwood  always  on  my 
mantel  piece  and  hope  some  day  to  revisit  it  and  Concord.  My  wife  is  fairly  well, 
but  with  a  threatening  of  bronchitis  which  I  am  sorry  to  say  always  haunts  her 
through  our  winter  months.     The  children  were  never  better. 

I  wish  we  had  a  Kindergarten  near  by  but  in  default  we  must  do  our  best  to 
rear  them  on  your  principles.  Pray  give  my  kindest  regards  to  Mrs.  Putnam  and 
any  other  friends  who  remember  me  and  believe  me,  dear  Miss  Peabody,  always 
repentantly  and  most  truly  yours  THOS  HUGHES. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  a  photograph. 


Hughes,  Anne  Frances  Ford,  called  Fanny,  Mrs.  Thomas  Hughes. 
Letter  from  5  Ethelbert  Crescent,  Cliftonville,  Margate. 

My  dear  Miss  Peabody  : 

Many  thanks  for  your  kind  sympathy  —  your  letter    followed   us  here.      My 
husband  is  much  better  for  the  entire  quiet  and  sea  air.      We  are  both  sorry  that 


MANUSCRIPTS  AND   AUTOGRAPHS 

you  go  before  we  return  to  London  but  we  hope  to  see  Una  [Miss  Una  Haw- 
thorne.] Will  she  come  Sunday  the  26th  inst.  when  we  shall  be  settled  at  home? 
I  am  very  glad  you  saw  Edmund  Maurice  again.  Have  you  seen  the  Illustrated 
Review  of  May  ist.  It  contains  a  dreadful  picture  of  my  husband  but  rather  a 
nice  notice  of  his  writings.  I  hope  the  voyage  will  restore  you  to  health.  You 
will  see  Lowell  and  Emerson  and  so  many  great  men  I  long  to  know.  Send 
them  over  to  England  if  you  can  !  Have  you  heard  if  Mr.  Morley  and  Lily  are 
in  London,  they  were  due  last  week.  I  hope  Mrs.  Stackpole  received  your 
letter.  I  do  not  feel  certain  as  to  the  address.  With  our  united  kind  regards 
to  you  and  Una  and  hopes  that  you  may  have  a  good  passage  I  remain  always 
yours 

May  13th  FANNY  HUGHES 


Hughes,  Mrs.  Margaret  L.,  mother  of  Thomas  Hughes. 
Letter  to  A.  H. 

Uffington  House 

Sunday  evening,  Dec.  6th,  '84 
My  dear  Friend  : 

I  got  yr  kind  letter  yesterday  evening  and  Miss  Peabody's  interesting  enclo- 
sure, thank  you  for  both.  I  hope  the  Piute  Chieftainess  will  have  great  success 
in  her  mission.  It  will  be  an  everlasting  disgrace  to  the  white  man  for  his  treat- 
ment of  the  Indian  so  long  as  history  shall  be  read.  It  is  time  that  he  did  all  in 
his  power  to  repair  it.  I  am  better  now,  dear  friend,  but  still  very  weak.  Fan- 
nie's  and  my  love  to  you  and  May 

Ever  lovingly  yrs 

MARGARET  L.   HUGHES 


Hugo,  Victor  Marie,  Comte,  French  poet  and  novelist,  born  at  Besan- 
?on,  26  February,  1802,  died  in  Paris,  22  May,  1885. 

Short  note  without  place,  date  or  address,  interesting  only  as  a 
specimen  of  handwriting. 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 


Hunt,  James  Henry  Leigh,  known  as  "Leigh  Hunt,"  English  essay- 
ist, critic  and  poet,  born  at  Southgate,  Middlesex,  19  October, 
1784,  died  at  Putney,  28  August,  1859. 

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Manuscript  of  the  following  sonnet,  which  is  not  found  in  ordi- 
nary editions  of  Hunt's  poems  : 

"TO  FAME 

O  Fame,  what  art  thou  ?     Who  can  know,  alas  ! 

His  claim  to  any  share  in  thee  or  thine. 

Till  he  has  pass'd  that  dim  and  awful  line, 

Which  no  man  ever  pass'd  or  e'er  shall  pass. 
Prizing  thy  gifts  !     Rare  beings  still  amass 

Treasures  that  after  ages  count  divine  ; 

Yet  ere  they  pass  from  earth  thou  giv'st  no  sign 

That  they  in  memory  sh^ll  outlive  the  mass. 
How  oft,  in  life,  they  pine  for  very  bread, 

While  wordy  critics  smirch  their  lays  with  blots  ; 

How  oft  above  each  unremember'd  head, 
Year  after  year,  the  dock  or  hemlock  rots  ; 

And  then  thou  nam'st  their  love,  or  woe,  or  mirth  ; 

And  towns  that  let  them  die,  boast  that  they  gave  them  birth." 

Manuscript  of  a  notice,  for  the  Exa?niner,  of  a  lecture  by 
Carlyle  on  German  literature,  the  fifth  in  a  series  given  at  Wills's 
rooms  on  the  second  of  May,  1837.  The  lectures  seem  to  have 
been  given  extempore  and  are  not  in  print  and,  therefore,  Mr. 
Hunt's  report  is  printed  in  full  as  follows  : 

"  Mr.  Carlyle  (as  in  programme  announced)  omitted  a  lecture  on  Whit-Monday 
and  gave  his  fifth  on  Friday.  It  was  upon  the  semi-sceptical,  semi-religious 
elegancie  of  Haller  and  others  ;  the  vital  scholarship  of  Heyne,  making  flesh-and- 
blood  realities  of  the  ancient  writers ;  the  religious  devotion  of  infidel  Winckell- 
mann  to  pagan  art  ;  the  school  of  the  '  Strength-men '  (as  they  called  them- 
selves) rather  Convulsion  and  Weakness  men,  'Byronism,  spasmodically  writh- 
ing and  wriggling  and  hating  and  cursing  the  world  they  were  born  in '  ;  on  the 
Nicolai  and  Adelung  '  utilitarians '  who  discovered  that  '  feeling  was  useful '  ; 
and  on  the  sentimentalities  of  Lavater  and  others,  men  more  respectable  than  the 
fuss  they  set  going  about  'goodness'  and  'philanthropy,'  as  if  there  were 
nothing  in  the  world  worth  thinking  of  but  a  certain  moral  habitude  apter  to 
talk  than  to  do  ;  or,  as  if  a  good  thing  were  so  very  wonderful  when  it  was  done. 
There  was  some  tender  ground  in  this  for  obvious  reasons  ;  and  also  in  what  the 
lecturer  said  about  the  nothingness  of  metaphysics,  '  a  vortex  creating  and  swal- 
lowing itself  ;  but  the  frankness  and  gallantry  of  his  love  of  truth  and  his  hearty 
sympathy  with  whatsoever  realizes  a  firm  footing  for  itself  on  God's  world,  apart 
from  make-believes  and  hypocrisies  of  any  sort,  carried  him  manfully  through 
all ;  nor  has  any  one  of  his  lectures  left  his  audience  in  warmer-hearted  condition 

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with  their  instructor.     We  are  to  have  two  more  lectures  (for  he  has  thrown  in  a 
seventh  for  nothing)  during  which  we  expect  to  hear  much  about  Goethe." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  Wright  Smith  from  a  drawing  by  J. 
Hayter. 


Huxley,  Thomas  Henry,  English  scientist  and  author,  born  at  Ealing, 
4  May,  1825,  died  29  June,  1895. 

Brief  letter  without  address,  place  or  date. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Geo.  E.  Perine  from  a  photograph. 


Ingelow,  Miss  Jean,  English  poet,  born  at  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  1820, 
died  in  Kensington,  20  July,  1897. 

Manuscript  of  "  The  monitions  of  the  unseen,"  a  poem  published 
in  1870  in  the  volume  **  The  Monitions  of  the  Unseen^  and  Poems 
of  Love  and  Childhood''  [821.2    146.  m]. 

Portrait,  engraving,  nameless. 


Irving,  Washington,  American  author.  United  States  minister  to  Spain 
from  1842  to  1846,  born  in  New  York  City,  3  April,  1783,  died  at 
Sunnyside,  28  November,  1859. 

Manuscript  of  chapter  twelve  of  volume  five  of  his  Life  of  George 
Washington  [923.1  W.27.i],  with  reproduction  in  print  and  a 
portrait  of  Washington  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  from  the  painting 
by  Rembrandt  Peale. 


Jackson,  Andrew,  seventh  president  of  the  United  States,  born  in  the 
Waxhaw  settlement,  on  the  border  between  North  and  South 
Carolina,  15  March,  1767,  died  at  the  Hermitage,  near  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  8  June,  1845. 

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Signature  to  the  commission  of  Samuel  Swartwout  as  Collector 
of  the  customs  of  the  district  of  New  York,  dated  28  April, 
1834.  This  commission  is  the  record  of  an  early  and  very  noted 
instance  of  an  appointment  to  the  federal  service  under  the  spoils 
system. 


Jackson,  Helen  Maria  Fiske,  formerly  Mrs.  Edward  B.  Hunt,  after- 
ward Mrs.  William  S.  Jackson,  American  author,  known  as  "  H. 
H."  and  as  "  Helen  Hunt,"  born  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  18  October, 
1831,  died  in  San  Francisco,  12  August,  1885. 

Manuscript  of  an  article  called  "One  thirty -six  hours  on  the 
Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railroad." 

Manuscript  of  "Father  Junipero  and  his  work,"  an  article 
first  published  in  the  Century  for  May,  1883,  volume  4,  page  3, 
afterward  reprinted,  in  the  form  of  this  manuscript,  in  Glimpses  of 
Three  Coasts,  1886  [913  240]. 


James,  George  Payne  Rainsford,  English  novelist,  born  in  London,  9 
August,  1801,  died  in  Venice,  9  May,  1860. 

Short   private  letter,  without   place   or  date,  to  Col.   Goodwin, 
Stockbridge. 

Portrait,  engraved   by  Whitechurch  from  a  drawing  by  Baden, 
1846. 


James,  Henry,  American  author,  son  of  Henry  James,  the  theologian, 
born  in  New  York  City,  15  April,  1843. 

Manuscript  of  an  essay  on  "  Ivan  Turgenieff  "  first  published  in 
the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  January,  1884,  volume  53,  page  42,  and 
afterward  reprinted  in  \n?,  xoXuvae.  Partial  Portraits  [824.1  J27.p] 
The  essay  is  supplementary  to  a  preceding  essay  on  Turgeniefif's 
novels  which  was  first  printed  in  the  North  American  Review,  vol- 

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ume    118,    page   326,  and   afterward    republished    in   his   volume 

French  Poets  a7id  Novelists  [840  417]. 

Portraits,  one  wood-engraving,  and  one  process-cut  from  photo- 
graphs. 


Jameson,  Anna   Brownell    Murphy,    Mrs.    Robert   Jameson,    born   at 
Dublin,  17  May,  1794,  died  at  Ealing,  Middlesex,  17  March,  1860. 

Private  letter  without  date  written  from  Vere  St.,  London,  to 
Mrs.  Parkes,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Bessie  Rayner  Parkes  Belloc. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  a  painting  by  Alonzo  Chappel. 


Janvier,  Thomas  Allibone,  American  journalist  and  author,  born   in 
Pennsylvania,  1849. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "At  Mrs.  Berty's  tea,"  a  story  first  pub- 
lished in  the  Century  for  December,  1885,  volume  9,  page  307. 


Jefferson,  Joseph,   American  actor,  born   in   Philadelphia,  20  Febru- 
ary, 1829. 

Letter,  without  date,  to  Laurence  Hutton : 

My  dear  Mr.  Hutton  : 

I  am  overwhelmed  with  mortification  for  I  find  upon  referring  to  your  note  that  it 
is  I,  not  yourself,  that  made  the  error,  I  regret  this  more  than  I  can  say.  I  think 
it  was  the  29  contained  in  the  number  of  your  house  that  shifted  its  quarters  and 
got  into  my  head  that  caused  the  blunder.  And  I  am  under  the  impression 
too  that  Mr,  Gilder  said  something  about  Tuesday  in  connection  with  the  matter. 
However,  it  can't  be  helped  now  and  the  loss  was  mine. 

Faithfully  yours,  J,  JEFFERSON, 

Portrait,  etching  by  S,  Hollyer, 


Jefferson,  Thomas,  third  president  of  the  United  States,  born  in  Shad- 
well,  Albemarle  Co.,  Va,,  2  April,  1743,  died  at  Monticello,  4 
July,  1826. 

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Letter,  dated  Monticello,  Virginia,  May  14,  1806,  to  "The 
Rev.  Doctr.  G.  C.  Jenner. " 

Mr.  Jefferson  seems  to  have  been  confused  as  to  the  identity  of 
the  person  to  whom  the  letter  is  addressed  as  he,  quite  evidently, 
believed  the  Rev.  Dr.  G.  C.  Jenner  to  have  been  the  discoverer  of 
vaccination.  He  was,  however,  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Edward  Jenner, 
much  interested  in  his  uncle's  work. 

Sir: 

1  have  received  the  copy  of  the  Evidence  at  large  respecting  the  discovery  of 
the  Vaccine  inoculation,  which  you  have  been  pleased  to  send  me,  and  for  which 
I  return  you  my  thanks.  Having  been  among  the  early  converts,  in  this 
part  of  the  globe,  to  its  efficacy,  I  took  an  early  part  in  recommending  it  to  my 
countrymen.  I  avail  myself  of  this  occasion  of  rendering  you  my  portion  of  the 
tribute  of  gratitude  due  to  you  from  the  whole  human  family.  Medecine  has 
never  before  produced  any  single  improvement  of  such  utility.  Harvey's  discov- 
ery of  the  circulation  of  the  blood  was  a  beautiful  addition  to  our  knowledge  of 
the  animal  economy,  but  on  a  review  of  the  practice  of  medecine  before  and  since 
that  epoch,  I  do  not  see  any  great  amelioration  which  has  been  derived  from  that 
discovery.  You  have  erased  from  the  calendar  of  human  afflictions  one  of  its 
greatest.  Yours  is  the  comfortable  reflection  that  mankind  can  never  forget  that 
you  have  lived.  Future  nations  will  know  by  history  only  that  the  loathsome 
small-pox  has  existed  and  by  you  has  been  extirpated.  Accept  the  most  fervent 
wishes  for  your  health  and  happiness  and  assurances  of  the  greatest  respect  and 
consideration.  -pH.  JEFFERSON. 

2  portraits.  1,  steel-engraving  engraved  by  J.  C.  Buttre  from 
a  painting  by  G.  Stuart.     2,  steel-engraving,  anonymous. 


Jewett,  Miss  Sarah  Orne,  American  novelist,  born  in  South  Berwick, 
Maine,  3  September,  1849. 

Signed  manuscript  of  chapters  two,  three  and  four  of  A    Country 
Doctor  [J59— 1] . 

Portrait,  wood-engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Johnson,  Dr.  Samuel,  English  lexicographer  and  author,  born  at 
Lichfield,  18  September,  1709,  died  in  London,  13  December, 
1784. 

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Letter,  dated  27  May,  1775,  [from  London]  to  his  friend  the 
Rev.  Dr.  John  Taylor  at  Lichfield.  The  letter  announces  an 
intended  visit  to  Oxford  and  other  places,  which  Boswell  does  not 
record. 

Portrait  engraved  from  a  painting  by  Alonzo  Chappel  copied 
from  a  portrait  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 


Keats,    John,  English  poet,  born  in  London,  31  October,  1795,  died 
in  Rome,  23  February,  1821. 

Manuscript  of  a  curious  sonnet,  dated  16  January,  1818,  entitled 
"To  Mrs.  Reynolds'  cat."  Mrs.  Reynolds  was  the  mother  of 
Keats's  friend,  John  Hamilton  Reynolds,  and  of  the  wife  of 
Thomas  Hood.  She  gave  the  sonnet  to  Hood,  who  published  it  in 
the  Comic  Annual  for  1830.  It  is  given  in  the  Poetical  and  Other 
Writings  of  John  Keats,  edited  by  Harry  Buxton  Forman,  volume 
4,  page  425  [821.2  K25 — 5].  Mr,  Forman  also  refers  to  some 
varying  forms  of  the  sonnet  in  his  volume  Poetry  and  Prose  by  John 
Keats  [821.2  K25— 5v5]. 

Ordinary  editions  of  Keats's  poems  do  not  contain  the  sonnet, 
which  is  reproduced,  with  the  spelling,  capitalization  and  punctua- 
tion of  the  manuscript. 

"TO  MRS.   REYNOLDS'  CAT. 

Cat  !  who  hast  past  thy  grand  Climacteric, 

How  many  mice  and  Rats  hast  in  thy  days 

Destroyed  ?  how  many  tit  bits  stolen  ?     Gaze 
With  those  bright  languid  segments  green  and  prick 
Those  velvet  ears  —  but  prythee  do  not  stick 

Thy  latent  talons  in  me  —  and  upraise 

Thy  gentle  mew,  and  tell  me  all  thy  frays 
Of  Fish  and  Mice  and  Rats  and  tender  chick. 
Nay  look  not  down  nor  lick  thy  dainty  wrists 

For  all  the  weezy  Asthma,  and  for  all 

Thy  tail's  tip  is  nicked  off,  and  though  the  fists 
Of  many  a  Maid  has  given  thee  many  a  mawl 

Still  is  that  fur  as  soft  as  when  the  lists 
In  youth  thou  enterd'st  on  glass  bottled  wall. 

Janr.  16,  1818" 

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Kent,  James,  American  jurist,  chancellor  of  New  York  State,  born  in 
Putnam  Co.,  N.  Y.,  31  July,  1763,  died  in  New  York  City,  12 
December,  1847. 

Manuscript    of  the    draft  of  an  opinion   concerning  a  case   in 
litigation. 


King,  The  Rev.  Thomas  Starr,  American  clergyman,  born  in  New  York 
City,  17  December,  1824,  died  in  San  Francisco,  4  March,  1864. 

Manuscript  of  a  sermon  on  "  Righteousness,"  text  I  John  iii :  7 
preached  Sunday,  29  October,  1848,  probably  at  the  Universalist 
church  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  repeated  in  San  Francisco,  4 
October,  1863. 


Kingsley,  The  Rev.  Charles,  English  clergyman  and  author,  born  at 
Holne  Vicarage,  12  June,  1819,  died  at  Eversley,  23  January, 
1875. 

Original  manuscript  of  part  of  a  lecture  on  "  The  first  discovery 
of  America,"  first  published  in  his  collection  called  Lectures 
Delivered  in  America  in  181 1^  [824.2  K55.1]  afterward  reprinted 
in  a  collection  called  Historical  Lectures  and  Essays,  which  forms 
volume  seventeen  of  his  collected  works. 


Kingsley,  Miss  Rose  Georgina,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Kingsley, 
English  author,  born  at  Eversley,  in  1845. 

Original  manuscript  of  an  article  called  "  Stoned  by  a  mountain  " 
first  published  in  the  Wide  Awake  for  March,  1886,  volume  22, 
page  245. 


Kotzebue,  August  Friedrich  Ferdinand  von,  German  author,  born  in 
Weimar,  3  May,  1761,  died  in  Mannheim,  23  March,  1819. 

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Letter,  dated  21  November,  1800,  to  Herr  Leissring,  singer  and 
actor  in  Breslau. 

Newspaper  cuttings  concerning  Kotzebue  and  concerning  Sand, 
who  assassinated  him. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Ridley  from  a  painting  in  Berlin,  published 
30  April,  1800. 


Lamartine,  Alphonse  Marie  Louis  de  Prat  de,    French  poet,   born  at 
Macon,  21  October,  1790,  died  at  Paris,  1  March,  1869. 

Letter,  dated  Beyrouth,  Nov.  12,  1832,  on  purely  personal  busi- 
ness detail. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  W.   J.   Edwards  from  a  painting  by 
Gerard. 


Lamb,    Charles,   English  author,  born  in  London,  10  February,  1775, 
died  in  Edmonton,  27  December,  1834. 

Manuscript  of  "  Theses  qucedam  Theologicce  ^  ^  accompanied  by  a 
letter  to  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge.  This  letter  and  the  accom- 
panying document  record  one  of  the  few  instances  in  Lamb's 
patient  life  when  he  allowed  his  wit  to  carry  a  sting.  In  1797 
Coleridge  satirized  his  own  style  and  that  of  Lamb  and  Lloyd  in 
what  are  known  as  the  Higginbotham  sonnets.  He  apparently 
offended  both  his  friends  and  an  estrangement  followed  which  was 
painful  to  Coleridge.  On  the  eve  of  his  departure,  with  Words- 
worth, for  Germany  he  sent,  without  other  goodbye,  the  following 
message  to  Lamb,  "  Poor  Lamb,  if  he  wants  any  knowledge  he  may 
apply  to  me."  The  message,  no  doubt  intended  as  a  jest  by  Cole- 
ridge, when  repeated  by  a  mutual  friend  to  Lamb,  evidently  nettled 
him  and  he  responded  with  the  theses  and  letter.  It  appears  that 
Lamb  rather  admired  his  own  hit,  for  the  theses,  somewhat  amended, 
and  the  occasion  of  them  are  repeated  in  a  letter,  dated  28  July, 
1798,  to  Robert  Southey,  which  may  be  found  in  Ainger's  edition 
of  Lamb's  letters  [826.2  92].     The  theses  and  letter  and  the  story 

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of  them  are  also  given  in  Cottle's  Reminiscences  of  Coleridge  and 
Souihey  [928.2  C677.co]. 

It  is  pleasant  to  record  that,  on  Coleridge's  return  to  England, 
the  friendship  between  him  and  Lamb  was  resumed  and  never 
again  broken  while  they  lived.  The  documents  are  reproduced, 
as  the  text  varies  slightly  from  that  printed  by  Cottle. 

"THESES   QU/EDAM    THEOLOGIC^. 

1.  Whether  God  loves  a  lying  Angel  better  than  a  true  Man  ? 

2.  Whether  the  Archangel  Uriel  could  affirm  an  untruth.?  and  if  he  could 
whether  he  %vould  ? 

3.  Whether  Honesty  be  an  angelic  virtue  ?  or  not  rather  to  be  reckoned  among 
those  qualities  which  the  Schoolmen  term  '  Virtutes  minus  splendid^  et  term  et 
ho  minis  particeps '  ? 

4.  Whether  the  higher  order  of  Seraphim  Illuminati  ever  sneer? 

5.  Whether  pure  intelligences  can  love  ? 

6.  Whether  the  Seraphim  Ardentes  do  not  manifest  their  virtues  by  the  way 
of  vision  and  theory?  and  whether  practice  be  not  a  sub-celestial  and  merely 
human  virtue? 

7.  Whether  the  Vision  Beatific  be  anything  more  or  less  than  a  perpetual 
representment  to  each  individual  Angel  of  his  own  present  attainments  and  future 
capabilities,  somehow  in  the  manner  of  mortal  looking-glasses,  reflecting  a  per- 
petual complacency  and  self-satisfaction? 

8  and  last.  Whether  an  immortal  and  amenable  soul  may  not  come  to  be 
damned  at  last,  and  the  man  never  suspect  it  beforehand  ? 

Learned  Sir,  my  Friend, 

Presuming  on  our  long  habits  of  friendship  and  emboldened  further  by  your 
late  liberal  permission  to  avail  myself  of  your  correspondence,  in  case  I  want  any 
knowledge,  (which  I  intend  to  do  when  I  have  no  Encyclopaedia  or  Lady's 
Magazine  at  hand  to  refer  to  in  any  matter  of  science,)  I  now  submit  to  your 
enquiries  the  above  Theological  Propositions,  to  be  by  you  defended,  or  oppugned, 
or  both,  in  the  Schools  of  Germany,  whither  I  am  told  you  are  departing,  to  the 
utter  dissatisfaction  of  your  native  Devonshire  and  regret  of  universal  England  ; 
but  to  my  own  individual  consolation  if  thro  the  channel  of  your  wished  return, 
Learned  Sir,  my  Friend,  may  be  transmitted  to  this  our  Island,  from  those  famous 
Theological  Wits  of  Leipsic  and  Gottingen,  any  rays  of  illumination,  in  vain  to  be 
derived  from  the  home  growth  of  our  English  Halls  and  Colleges.     Finally,  wish- 

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ing  Learned  Sir,  that  you  may  see  Schiller  and  swing  in  a  wood  {vide  Poems)  and 
sit  upon  a  Tun,  and  eat  fat  hams  of  Westphalia, 

I  remain 

Your  friend  and  docile  Pupil  to  instruct 

CHARLES  LAMB. 
To  S.  T.  Coleridge  1798 

Portrait,  engraved  by  W.  Finden  from  a  drawing  by  T.   Wage- 
man. 


Landon,  Letitia  Elizabeth,  afterward  Mrs.  George  Maclean,  English 
poet,  born  in  Chelsea,  14  August,  1802,  died  at  Cape  Coast  Castle, 
15  October,  1838. 

Miss  Landon  was  for  some  years  a  vivid  figure  in  London  liter- 
ary life,  her  writings  were  of  a  fashion  long  outgrown  and  Richard 
Garnett  says  of  her  that  she  can  rank  only  as  a  gifted  improvisa- 
trice. 

The  lines  of  the  autograph  are  from  her  Female   Characters  of 
Scott  and  have    a    curious    interest    from  the  fact  that  they   were 
written  at  Cape  Coast  Castle,  of  which  her  husband  was  governor, 
shortly  before  her  death  under  tragic  circumstances. 

Letter,  postmarked  July  5,  1834,  from  Paris,  to  William  Shobert 
of  John  Bentley's  publishing  house,  concerning  the  transmission 
of  certain  promised  manuscript  from  Paris  to  her  publisher  in 
London. 

Portraits:  1,  engraved  by  J.  Thomson  from  Maclise's  painting; 
2,  engraving,  nameless. 


Lang,  Andrew,  Scotch  author,  born  at  Selkirk,  31  March,  1844. 

Manuscript  of  "Grass  of  Parnassus,"  a  poem  first  published  in 
Harper' s  Magazine  for  October,  1886,  volume  73,  page  665,  and 
afterward  used  as  an  introduction  to  his  volume  called  Grass  of 
Parnassus  [821.2  L269.g]. 

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Lathrop,  George  Parsons,  American  author,  son-in-law  of  Nathaniel 
Hawthorne,  born  in  Honolulu,  Hawaii,  25  August,  1851,  died  in 
New  York  City,  19  April,  1898. 

Manuscript  of  "An  American  Lordship,"  an  article  on  the  sub- 
ject of  an  island  lying  off  the  eastern  end  of  Long  Island,  called 
in  the  old  time  the  Isle  of  Wight,  now  known  as  Gardiner's  Island, 
connected  with  an  episode  in  Captain  Kidd's  career.  The  paper  was 
published  in  the  Century  for  December,  1885,  volume  9,  page  227. 


Lazarus,  Miss  Emma,  American  poet  of  Jewish  ])arentage,  born  in 
New  York  City,  22  July,  1849,  died  in  the  same  city,  19  Novem- 
ber, 1887. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Gifts,"  a  poem  first  published  in  the  Coi- 
fi/ry  for  November,  1885,  volume  9,  page  58,  and  afterward  included 
in  the  second  volume  of  her  collected  Poems  [821.1   L431 — 1]. 


Lincoln,  Abraham,  sixteenth  president  of  the  United  States,  born  in 
Hardin  Co.,  Ky.,  12  February,  1809,  died  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
15  April,  1865. 

Private  letter,  dated  Executive  Mansion,  Washington,  March  13, 
1864,  to  the  Hon.  Michael  Hahn,  published  in  the  Abraham  Lin- 
eoln,  a  history,  by  John  G.  Nicolay  and  John  Hay,  volume  8,  page 
434  [923.1  L.63.n]. 

The  letter  was  written  immediately  after  Governor  Hahn's 
inauguration  as  first  free-state  governor  of  Louisiana,  and  com- 
mends to  his  attention  the  idea  that  the  elective  franchise  should 
be  conferred  upon  the  intelligent  negroes,  at  least,  saying,  "They 
would  probably  help,  in  some  trying  time  to  come,  to  keep  the 
jewel  of  liberty  within  the  family  of  freedom." 

Facsimile  of  letter,  dated  City  Point,  April  2,  7.45,  1865,  from 
President  Lincoln  to  Mrs.  Lincoln. 

Portrait,  steel  engraving  by  A.  H.  Ritchie  from  a  photograph  by 
Brady. 

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Lippincott,  Sarah  Jane  Clarke,  Mrs.  Leander  K.  Lippincott,  American 
author  known  as  "Grace  Greenwood,"  born  in  Pompey,  N.  Y., 
23  September,  1823. 

Signed  autograph  copy,  dated  New  York,  5  April,  1889,  of  the 
following  stanza  : 

"  Let  the  haughty  smile,  the  low  defame, 

The  heartless  worldling  mock, — 
Let  them  sneer  at  Bunker's  glorious  hill 

And  Plymouth's  hallowed  rock, 
I  thank  my  God  my  fathers  came 

Of  the  good  old  Pilgrim  stock  !  " 

Personal  letter,  dated  25  W.  37th  St.,  New  York,  14  May,  1871, 
to  Mr.  Tilton.  Speaking  of  Whitelaw  Reid,  editor  of  the  New 
York  Tribune,  she  says  : 

"  Personally  I  like  Mr.  Reid  but  as  an  editor  he  exasperates  me.  lie  tinkers 
my  articles  and  he  abuses  my  principles.  He  cuts  out  my  jokes  and  cuts  into  my 
sentiment  ;  he  is  death  on  poetry  and  the  woman  question." 

Portraits:  1,  engraved  by  W.  G.  Armstrong  from  a  sketch  by 
G.  H,  Cushman  ;  2,  half-tone  from  an  early  drawing  ;  3,  engraved  by 
J.  Andrews  and  H.  W.  Smith  from  a  painting  by  C.  G.  Thompson. 


Litchfield,    Miss  Grace  Denio,  American  novelist,  born  in  New  York, 
in  1849. 

Signed  manuscript  of  ''The  top  of  the  ladder,"  a  story    pub- 
lished in  the  Wide  Awake,  for  May,  1886,  volume  22,  page  334. 

Signed  manuscript  of  a  poem  called  "  The  snowstorm." 


Lodge,  Henry  Cabot,   United  States  Senator  from  Massachusetts  and 
author,  born  in  Boston,  12  May,  1850. 

Signed  manuscript  of  a  review  of  George  W.  Julian's  Political 
Recollections,  lSJ^O-1872  [923.1  J. 94]  published  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  for  April,  1884,  volume  53,  page  560. 

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Longfellow,    Henry  Wadsworth,    American    poet,    born  in   Portland, 
Me.,  27  February,   1807,   died  in   Cambridge,   Mass.,   24   March, 

1882. 

Manuscript,  dated  13  November,  1873,  of  sonnet  on  Milton, 
and  letters,  one  to  Miss  Gertrude  Bloede  and  three  to  Mr. 
Osgood,  interesting  only  as  good  specimens  of  the  poet's  hand- 
writing. 

Engraved  portrait,  nameless. 


Lover,  Samuel,  Irish  song-writer,  novelist  and  painter,  born  in  Dub- 
lin, 24  February,  1797,  died  at  St.  Heliers,  6  July,  1868. 

Manuscript  and  music  of  the  song  *'  The  Indian  Summer."  The 
song,  of  which  both  the  words  and  the  music  are  Lover's,  is  one  of 
his  most  graceful  compositions  and  was  written  during  his  visit  to 
the  United  States  in  1846  during  which  he  experienced,  to  quote 
his  own  words  :  "  The  brief  period  which  succeeds  the  autumnal 
close,  called  the  Indian  summer,  a  reflex  as  it  were  of  the  early 
portion  of  the  year,  strikes  a  stranger  in  America  with  peculiar 
beauty  and  quite  charmed  me. ' ' 

Published,  without  music,  in  Lover's  Poetical  Works  [821.2 
L9117— 1]. 


Lowell,  James  Russell,  American  poet,  essayist  and  diplomatist,  born 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  22  February,  1819,  died  in  the  same  city, 
12  August,  1891. 

Manuscript  of  "The  Winthrop  papers,"  a  critical  review  pub- 
lished in  the  North  American  Review  for  October,  1867,  volume 
105,  page  592,  and  afterward  incorporated  under  the  title  "  New 
England  two  centuries  ago  "  in  his  Literary  Essays,  volume  2,  page 
19  [820.1  L915]. 

Two  portraits:  1,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  from  the  crayon  by 
William  Page;    2,  engraved  by  J.  A.  J.  Wilcox  from  a  photograph. 

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Lytton,  Edward  George  Earle  Lytton  Bulwer-Lytton,  1st  Baron,  Eng- 
lish novelist,  born  in  London,  25  May,  1803,  died  at  Torquay,  18 
January,  1873. 

Manuscript  of  part  of  an  article  on  the  "  Death  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott"  published  in  October,  1832,  in  the  New  Monthly  Magazine 
of  which  Lord  Lytton,  then  Mr.  Bulwer,  was  editor,  afterward 
included  in  the  Critical  and  Miscellaneous  Papers  of  Sir  Edward 
Lytton  Buhver  [824.2  L998.cr]  collected  from  the  New  Monthly 
Magazine  and  the  Monthly  Chronicle  and  published  by  Lea  & 
Blanchard,  Philadelphia,  1841. 

Private  letter,  dated  Ventnor,  10  December,  1856,  interesting 
only  as  an  autograph. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  a  painting  by  Alonzo  Chappel. 


Lytton,  Edward  Robert  Bulwer-Lytton,  1st  Earl  of,  only  son  of  the 
first  Baron  Lytton,  English  statesman  and  poet,  best  known  as  a 
poet  under  his  pen  name  "Owen  Meredith,"  born  in  London,  8 
November,  1831,  died  at  Paris,  24  November,  1891. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Atlantis,"  a  poem  in  twelve  unequal 
stanzas,  ten  manuscript  pages.  The  poem  is  in  celebration  of  the 
struggle  of  the  American  civil  war  and  is  not  included  in  the  ordi- 
nary editions  of  the  Earl  of  Lytton's  poems. 

Autograph  copy  of  ' '  North  and  South, ' '  a  poem  of  two 
eight-line  stanzas,  published  in  After  Paradise,  1887  [821.2 
L9981.a]. 


Lytton,  Rosina  Wheeler  Bulwer-Lytton,  Lady,  wife  of  the  first  Baron 
Lytton,  born  in  Ireland,  4  November,  1802,  died  at  Upper  Syden- 
ham, 12  March,  1882. 

A  letter  without  place  or  date  to  William  Jerdan,  editor  of  the 
Literary  Gazette. 

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Macaulay,  Thomas  Babington,  1st  Baron  Macaiilay  of  Rothley,  Eng- 
lish historian  and  essayist,  born  at  Rothley  Temple,  25  October, 
1800,  died  at  Holly  Lodge,  Kensington,  28  December,  1859. 

Letter,  dated  from  the  Albany,  London,  March  25,  1849,  writ- 
ten to  an  American  friend  in  response  to  a  letter  of  congratula- 
tion on  his  History  of  England,  the  first  two  volumes  of  which 
were  just  published.  The  letter  is  most  characteristic,  giving 
Macaulay' s  conception  of  American  taste  and  some  American 
habits,  and  is  printed  in  full : 

My  dear  Sir  : 

I  have  received  a  very  kind  and  welcome  letter  from  you  which  it  would  be  un- 
grateful in  me  not  promptly  to  acknowledge.  What  you  tell  me  of  the  reception 
which  my  book  has  found  in  the  United  States  gratifies  me  much,  but  at  the  same 
time  surprises  me.  For  it  seems  to  me  that  very  few  books  have  in  as  high  a 
degree  the  merit  or  demerit  of  being  intensely  English  :  and  I  should  have 
thought  that  this  peculiarity,  which  has  conduced  not  a  little  to  the  success  of  my 
volumes  here,  would  have  made  them  seem  dull  to  a  people  who  have  never  seen 
anything  resembling  our  Court,  our  Bishops,  our  country  gentlemen,  our  country 
clergymen,  to  a  people  who  are  strangers  to  the  feeling  of  loyalty  to  a  family, 
respect  for  an  aristocracy,  zeal  for  the  privileges  of  an  established  Church.  I 
should  have  thought  that  our  disputes  about  the  patriarchal  theory  of  government, 
the  divine  right  of  kings,  regency,  abdication,  and  so  forth  would  have  been  as 
uninteresting  to  you  as  the  controversy  between  the  followers  of  Omar  and  the 
followers  of  Ali.  I  am  glad  to  find  that  I  was  mistaken.  I  should  greatly  en- 
joy a  trip  to  the  United  States  if  I  could  be  sure  that  I  should  be  as  free  and  as 
obscure  as  I  am  when  I  go  to  Paris  or  Brussels,  that  I  should  be  at  liberty  to 
choose  my  own  associates  and  that  I  should  never  be  forced  to  make  a  show  of 
myself  at  dinners  and  public  meetings.  But  my  dislike  of  exhibition  which  was 
always  strong  and  which  never  yielded  except  to  clear  public  duty,  has,  since  I 
quitted  politics,  become  almost  morbid.  And  what  I  hear  of  the  form  in  which 
your  countrymen  shew  their  kindness  and  esteem  for  men  whose  names  are  at  all 
known  deters  me  from  visiting  you.  I  need  not  tell  you  that  I  mean  no  national 
reflection.  Perhaps  the  peculiarity  to  which  I  allude  is  honorable  to  the  Ameri- 
can character;  but  it  must  cause  annoyance  to  sensitive  and  fastidious  men. 
Brougham  or  O'Connell  would  have  liked  nothing  better.  But  Cowper  would 
have  died  or  gone  mad  :  Byron  would  have  insulted  his  admirers,  and  have  been 
shot  or  tarred  and  feathered  ;  and,  though  I  have  stronger  nerves  than  Cowper's, 
and,  I  hope,  a  better  temper  than  Byron's,  I  should  suffer  much  pain  and  give 
much  offense. 

I  assure  you  that  I  and  many  others  remember  your  visit  to  us  with  pleasure, 
and  hope  to  see  you  here  again.  We  have  gone  through  rough  times  ;  but  a 
quiet  season  seems  to  be  before  us.     But  I  must  stop. 

Ever  yours  truly  T.   B.   MACAULAY. 

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McKay,  James  T.,  American  author. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "A  story  with  a  hero,"   published  in   the 
Century  for  August,  1885,  vohune  8,  page  569. 


McMaster,  John  Bach,  American  historian,  professor  of  American 
history  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
29  June,  1852. 

Original  manuscript  of  pages  581-586  of  volume  two  of  his 
History  of  the  People  of  the  United  States  [971  115],  with  a  letter 
to  Mr.  Gluck  accompanying  the  manuscript. 


Marble,   Manton,  American  journalist,  founder  of  the  New  York  World, 
born  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  16  November,  1835. 

Letter,  dated  ''The  World"  office,  New  York,  May  21st,  1863, 
to  Theodore  Tilton.  Interesting  chiefly  as  a  specimen  of  the 
famous  editor's  style  and  handwriting. 

Portrait,  wood-engraving  by  W.  S.  L.  Jewett  from  a  photograph 
by  Rockwood. 


Matthews,  Brander,  American  author,  professor  of  literature  at  Colum- 
bia University,  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.,  21  February,  1852. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Love  at  first  sight;  a  dialogue  at  din- 
ner," first  published  in  the  Century  iox  October,  1885,  volume  8, 
page  838,  afterward  included  in  his  volume  A  Secret  of  the  Sea 
[M438— 8] . 


Melanchthon,  Philipp,   German   theologian,   born   at   Bretten   in    the 
Palatinate,  16  February,  1497,  died  at  Wittenberg,  19  April,  1560. 

Receipt,  written  in  German,  beginning   "  Ich   Philippus  Melan- 
thon." 

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Theological  manuscript  in    Latin.      From    the    Hodges   collec- 
tion. 

Portrait,  photograph  from  etching  of  1526  by  Albrecht  Diirer. 


Miller,  Cincinnatus  Hiner,  called  Joaquin,  American  poet,  born  in  the 
Wabash  district,  Ind.,  10  November,  1841. 

Collection  of  manuscripts  of  essays,  poems,  and  drama,  viz.  : 
"On  the  death  of  Peter  Cooper"  ;  from  "Kit  Carson's  ride"  ; 
from  ' '  Songs  of  the  Sunland  ' '  ;  from  ' '  Even  so, ' '  eU. 


Mitford,  Miss  Mary  Russell,  English  novelist  and  dramatist,  born  at 
Alresford,  Hampshire,  16  December,  1787,  died  at  Svvallowfield, 
10  January,  1855. 

Letter,  without  place  or  date,  to  her  publishers,  concerning  the 
manuscript  of  a  volume  of  her  tales.  Interesting  only  as  a  speci- 
men of  Miss  Mitford' s  handwriting. 

Two  portraits:  1,  engraved  by  William  Read;  2,  engraved 
by  H.  W.  Smith  from  the  second  painting  by  John  Lucas,  now  in 
the  National  Portrait  Gallery,  London. 


Montalembert,   Charles  Forbes,  Comte  de,  French  author  and  states- 
man, born  in  London,  in  1810,  died  in  Paris,  12  March,  1870. 

Letter,  dated  Paris,  15  April,  1849,  to  M.  M.  Barthelemy,  from 
the  Comite  electoral  pour  la  defense  de  la  liberte  religieuse  of 
which  Count  de  Montalembert  was  at  this  date  the  president. 


Montgomery,  George  Edgar,  American  poet. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  A  lightning  flash,"  a  poem  first  published 
in  T/ie  Century  for  August,  1886,  volume  10,  page  542. 

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Montgomery,  James,  Scotch  poet,  born  at  Irvine  in  Ayrshire,  4  No- 
vember, 1771,  died  at  Sheffield,  30  April,  1854. 

Letter,  dated  Sheffield,  March  11,  1807,  to  Dr.  John  Aikin  at 
Stoke  Newington.  The  letter  was  written  while  the  poet  was  still 
smarting  under  a  contemptuous  review  by  Francis  Jeffrey  in  the 
Edinburgh  Review  [January,  1807,  volume  9,  page  347]  and 
expresses  much  gratitude  for  comfort  and  encouragement  to  Dr. 
Aikin,  who  had  at  this  time  just  founded  his  literary  paper,  the 
Athenceum. 

Manuscript  of  "The  world  before  the  flood:  Canto  iii.  The 
patriarchs;  Canto  iv.  The  prophecy  of  Enoch,"  which  is  pub- 
lished in  his  Poetical  Works,  volume  2  [821.2  M787— 1]. 

The  manuscript  is  dated  30  December,  1809,  and  bears  a  super- 
scription to  Dr.  Aikin  and  a  postmark  13  January,  1810. 

Two  portraits:  1,  a  steel-engraving  by  H.  Adlard  from  the 
painting  by  John  Jackson,  R.  A.,  in  1827,  one  of  the  two  best 
portraits ;  2,  engraving,  anonymous. 


Moore,  Thomas,   Irish  poet,  born  in  Dublin,   28  May,  1779,  died  at 
Sloperton  Cottage  near  Devizes,  25  February,  1852. 

Manuscript,  dated  June  6,  1818,  of  two  songs:  the  first  **  Angel 
of  Charity  "  set  to  an  air  by  Handel ;  the  second  "  Oh  !  how  sweet 
to  think  hereafter ' '  set  to  an  air  by  Haydn. 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 


Motley,  John  Lothrop,  American  historian  and  diplomatist,  born  in 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  15  April,  1814,  died  near  Dorchester,  England, 
29  May,  1877. 

Letter,  dated  Nahant,  26  August,  1875,  to  Horace  Mann. 

The  letter  was  written  during  the  author's  last  visit  to  America, 
very  soon  after  the  death  of  Mrs.  Motley.  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes    in    his  John    Lothrop   Motley    [928.1    M.85.h]    has    the 

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following  passage  in  relation  to  Mrs.  Motley's  death,  which  shows 
the  conditions  of  mind  and  body  under  which  the  letter  was 
written : 

"On  the  last  day  of  1874  the  beloved  wife,  whose  health  had 
for  some  years  been  failing,  was  taken  from  him  by  death.  She 
had  been  the  pride  of  his  happier  years,  the  stay  and  solace  of 
those  which  had  so  tried  his  sensitive  spirit.  The  blow  found  him 
already  weakened  by  mental  suffering  and  bodily  infirmity,  and  he 
never  recovered  from  it." 

The  letter  is  as  follows  : 

Aly  dear  friend : 

Many  thanks  for  your  most  kind  and  interesting  and  touching  letter.  I  wait 
impatiently  for  the  sequel  you  promise.  How  I  wish  I  could  write  to  you.  It 
would  be  an  immense  relief  but  my  arm  seems  pinioned  to  my  side  by  those 
invisible  threads  which  are  stronger  than  iron  chains  and  the  effort  to  write 
reacts  on  the  brain.  You  will  pardon  me  I  am  sure.  I  send  the  papers  you 
asked  for  and  doubly  wish  I  could  write  to  you  of  the  angel  whose  departure  has 
left  me  desolate.  But  you  will  take  the  will  for  the  deed.  Return  them  quite 
at  your  leisure.  Pray  give  my  kindest  regard  and  remembrance  to  Mrs.  Mann. 
Of  course  she  knows  as  well  as  you  how  sacredly  confidential  the  paper  written 
by  me  is. 

I  am  sincerely  and  affectionately  yours  J.  L.   M. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  John  Sartain  from  a  photograph. 


Mott,  Lucretia  Coffin,  Mrs.  James  Mott,  American  reformer,  born  on 
Nantucket  Island,  3  January,  1793,  died  at  Roadside,  near  Phila- 
delphia, 11  November,  1880. 

Letter,  dated  Roadside,  3mo  18,  1870,  to  Theodore  Tilton,  in 
reply  to  a  letter  from  him  with  regard  to  an  attempt  to  unite  the 
American  Woman  Suffrage  Association  and  the  Union  Woman 
Suffrage  Society.  The  letter  is  interesting  not  only  as  the  letter  of 
a  woman  then  seventy-seven  years  old,  but  as  revealing  the  spirit 
of  the  quiet  Friend  who  was  so  strong  an  influence  in  all  the  stirring 
reform  movements  of  her  time. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  G.  E.  Perine  from  a  photograph. 

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Moulton,    Ellen  Louise  Chandler,  Mrs.  William  A.  Moulton,  American 
author,  born  at  Pomfret,  Conn.,  5  April,  1835. 

Autograph  copy  of  the  poem  "Love's  resurrection  day,"  first 
published  in  Harper^ s  Magazine  for  June,  1884,  volume  69,  page 
104,  afterward  included  in  her  volume  The  Garden  of  £)rea?ns 
[821.1  M927.g]. 

Sonnet  entitled  "Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,"  published  in  her 
volume  The  Garden  of  Dreams  [821.1   M927.g]. 


Muhlenberg,  Gen.  John  Peter  Gabriel,  American  patriot,  clergyman, 
soldier  and  legislator,  born  at  Trappe,  Pa.,  1  October,  1746,  died 
near  Philadelphia,  1  October,  1807. 

Signature  on  a  check  for  two  hundred  dollars  for  stamps  on  the 
Bank  of  the  United  States,  9  July,  1802.  Gen.  Muhlenberg  was 
at  this  time  supervisor  of  revenue  for  the  district  of  Pennsylvania. 
This  is  the  stalwart  clergyman  who  announced  from  his  pulpit, 
"  There  is  a  time  for  all  things — a  time  to  preach  and  a  time  to 
pray;  but  there  is  also  a  time  to  fight  and  that  time  has  now 
come,"  threw  off  his  gown,  disclosing  the  full  uniform  of  a  colonel, 
proceeded  to  the  church  door  and  ordered  the  drums  to  beat  for 
recruits.     The  recruits  came. 


Mundt,  Klara  Miiller,  wife  of  Theodor  Mundt,  German  novelist, 
known  by  her  pen-name  "  Luise  Miihlbach,"  born  in  Neubranden- 
burg,  2  January,  1814,  died  in  Berlin,  26  September,  1873. 

Part  of  a  letter  without  address,  place  or  date,  giving  a  specimen 
of  the  handwriting  and  signature  of  the  novelist. 


Murfree,  Miss  Mary  Noailles,  American  novelist  writing  under  the 
name  of  Charles  Egbert  Craddock,  born  in  Murfreesborough, 
Tenn.,  in  1850. 

Signed   manuscript  of    "Drifting    down   Lost  Creek,"    a  short 
story  first  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  in  March  and  April, 

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1884,  volume  53,  pages  362,  441,  afterward  included  in  the  collec- 
tion of  stories  In  the  Tennessee  Mountains  [C8842 — 4]  .  The  man- 
uscript consists  of  fifty  pages  and  is  very  decided  and  very  clear. 
Examination  of  it  explains  how  it  was  that  the  editor  of  the  Atlantic 
(Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich)  accepted  the  masculine  pen-name  of  the 
writer  in  good  faith  and  addressed  Charles  Egbert  Craddock  as 
"Dear  Sir." 


New  York  State 

Commissions  signed  by  the  early  governors. 

12  May,  1798,  by  John  Jay. 

25  March,  1803,  by  George  Clinton. 

16  April,  1806,  by  Morgan  Lewis. 

10  April,  1810,  by  Daniel  D.  Tompkins. 

30  April,  1821,  by  DeWitt  Clinton. 

8  March,  1824,  by  Joseph  C.  Yates. 

22  April,  1828,  by  Nathaniel  Pitcher. 

23  February,  1829,  by  Martin  Van  Buren. 
3  April,  1829,  by  Enos  Thompson  Throop. 

16  March,  1833,  by  William  L.  Marcy. 

17  March,  1840,  by  William  H.  Seward. 
27  February,  1844,  by  William  C.  Bouck. 
7  May,  1845,  by  Silas  Wright. 

7  April,  1848,  by  John  Young. 


Newman,  His  Eminence  John  Henry,  English  cardinal  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  born  in  London,  21  February,  1801,  died  in 
Edgbaston,  11  August,  1890. 

Letter,  with  autograph,  dated  30  December,  1885,  to  the  Rever- 
end Father  M.  P.  Connery  of  Akron,  N.  Y.  The  handwriting 
of  both  the  letter  and  the  autograph,  written  in  the  eighty-fifth 
year  of  the  great  cardinal's  life,  shows  the  effects  of  increasing  age 
and  weakness,  although  he  lived  nearly  five  years  longer.  The 
sentiment  of  the  autograph  is  a  verse,  slightly  altered,  from  the 
Vulgate  Bible,  Hebrews  x  :   37,  and  means,  being  translated,  ' '  For 

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yet  a  little  while  and  he  that  is  to  come  will  come  and  will  not 
delay." 

Letter  and  autograph  are  as  follows  : 

Dear  Mr.  Cannery, 

My  fingers  are  so  stiff  and  feeble  that  I  do  not  write  without  effort  and  pain. 
I  enclose  what  I  can.  Yours  very  truly 

JOHN  H.   CARD.   NEWMAN. 

Ad  hue  modicum  aliquantulum  qui  venturus  est  veniet  et  non  tardabit. 

J.   II.   CARD.  NEWMAN. 
Dec.  30,  1885. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Joseph  Brown. 


O'Reilly,  John  Boyle,  Irish  patriot,  journalist  and  poet,  for  twenty 
years  editor  of  the  Boston  Pilot,  born  at  Dowth  Castle,  Ireland,  28 
June,  1844,  died  at  Hull,  Mass.,  10  August,  1890. 

Autograph  copy  of  the  concluding  ten  lines  of  his  poem  "The 
ride  of  Collins  Graves  ;  an  incident  of  the  flood  in  Massachusetts, 
16  May,  1874,"  published  in  his  volume  Songs,  Legends  and 
Ballads  [821.1  066. s]. 


Ossoli,  Sarah  Margaret  Fuller,  American  author,  for  some  time  editor 
of  the  Dial,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  23  May,  1810,  mar- 
ried December,  1847,  to  Giovanni  Angelo  Marchese  Ossoli,  ship- 
wrecked near  Fire  Island,  19  July,  1850. 

Letter,  dated  Rome,  514  Corso,  8th  March,  1848  : 

Aly  dear  Miss  Stirling  : 

That  I  have  not  written  as  you  wish  impute  to  my  very  bad  health  during  the 
winter.  You  are  often  present  to  my  thoughts.  The  same  cause  has  pre- 
vented my  cultivating  the  acquaintances  to  whom  you  introduced  me  and  who 
promised  to  be  very  agreeable.  Let  me  on  my  side  present  Mr.  Hedge  one  of 
the  most  cultivated  and  refined  minds  of  my  country  and  a  friend  of  Emerson's 
no  less  than  mine.  What  great  and  stirring  times  are  these  of  Paris.  I  should 
like  much  to  receive  a  few  lines  from  you  about  what  you  have  known  of  them. 

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Had  I  but  been  in  Paris  this  14th  of  February  as  I  was  last  year  ;  it  was  on  that 
day  I  went  with  you  to  hear  Chopin  and  afterwards  the  dear  kind  Chevalier. 
Time  permits  today  no  word  more  except,  dear  Miss  Stirling,  in  hope  of  some- 
time meeting  again  yours  afifectionately  g    t^j    FULLER 

Portraits :     1,   engraved   by  H,   B.   Hall,  Jr.  ;    2,  engraved   by 
F.  T.  Stuart. 


Overbury,  Sir  Thomas,  English  poet  and  courtier,  born  at  Compton- 
Scorpion,  in  Warwickshire,  18  June,  1581,  died  in  the  Tower,  15 
September,  1613. 

A  very  early  manuscript  copy  of  "Sir  Thomas  Ouerburye  his 
obseruations  in  trayuelle  upon  ye  state  of  the  17  prouinces  as  they 
stood  Anno  Domini  1609  the  treaty  of  peace  being  then  on  foote," 
from  the  Osterley  Park  library,  the  original  being  at  Lambeth. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  published  in  1796  by  Harding,  from  his. 
drawing  of  the  original  by  C.  Jansen  in  the  Bodleian  gallery,  Oxford. 


Parker,  Elizabeth    Lowber    Chandler,   Mrs.   Leroy  Parker,   American 
author,  known  as  Bessie  Chandler,  born  in  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  1856. 

Manuscript  of  "My  rival,"   a  poem  published  in  the  Century  for 
October,  1885,  volume  8,  page  976. 


Parker,  The  Rev.  Theodore,  American  clergyman,  born  in  Lexington, 
Mass.,  24  August,  1810,  died  in  Florence,  Italy,  10  May,  1860. 

Manuscript  sermon  for   Thanksgiving  Day,   preached   at    West 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  November  25,  1841,  from  the  text  Job  xii :   8. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  H.  Adlard,  from  a  photograph  taken 
in  1846. 


Parkman,  Francis,  American  historian,  born  at  Boston,  16  September, 
1823,  died  at  Boston,  8  November,  1893. 

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Manuscript  of  Count  Fnmfenac  and  JVeta  France  under  Louis 
XIV  [976  60],  the  fifth  part  of  the  great  series,  France  and  Eng- 
land in  North  America.  The  preface  and  the  notes,  of  which 
there  are  many,  are  in  Mr.  Parkman's  handwriting,  but  the  body 
of  the  manuscript  is  made  by  an  amanuensis,  according  to  the 
author's  constant  practice. 


Parton,  James,  American  author,  born  at  Canterbury,  England,  9  Feb- 
ruary, 1822,  died  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  17  October,  1891. 

Letter,  dated  Newburyport,  Mass.,  December  13,  1885,  to 
Mr.  Gkick,  expressing  Mr.  Parton 's  regret  that  he  could  not 
give  one  of  his  manuscripts  to  the  Library,  as  he  possessed  none 
of  them. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  from  a  photograph. 


Parton,  Sarah  Payson  Willis,  Mrs.  James  Parton,  sister  of  Nathaniel 
Parker  Willis,  American  author  known  by  her  pen-name,  "Fanny 
Fern,"  born  at  Portland,  Me.,  7  July,  1811,  died  in  New  York,  10 
October,  1872. 

Personal  letter  dated  27  February,  1863,  to  Theodore  Tilton : 

Dear  Tilton  : 

When  I  receive  letters  from  friends  or  strangers  signifying  pleasure  at  anything 
I  may  have  written, —  well  —  I  like  it  !  Thinking  that  this  may  also  be  true  of 
you  I  must  tell  you  that  I  read  aloud  "  The  one  true  Church  "  the  other  evening 
with  great  delight  quite  ignorant  that  you  were  the  author.  Do  you  suppose  I 
liked  it  the  less  when   Perkins  informed  me  of  this  fact  last  evening  ?     Not  a 

"■  ■  Yours  truly  FANNY  FERN. 


Patmore,  Coventry  Kearsey  Dighton,  English  poet,  born  at  Wood- 
ford, Essex,  23  July,  1823,  died  at  Lymington,  26  November, 
1896. 

Letter    written    in    the    third    person,    dated    Library,     British 
Museum,   December  29,  1847,  to  Mr.  J.  B,  Nichols.      The  letter 

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offers  a  paper  on  William  Browne  for  the  Gentleman! s  Magazine. 
Mr.  Patmore  was  assistant  librarian  in  the  Library  of  the  British 
Museum  from  1846  to  1865. 


Payne,  John  Howard,  American  dramatist,  born  in  New  York  City,  9 
June,  1792,  American  consul  from  1841  to  1852  in  Tunis,  Africa, 
where  he  died,  10  April,  1852. 

Autograph,  being  a  copy  of  the  two  stanzas  by  Aaron  Hill : 

**  Tender-handed  stroke  a  nettle,"  etc. 

Facsimile  of  "  Home  sweet  home." 

Portraits:  1,  steel-engraving  nameless;  2,  steel-engraving  by 
G.  R.  Hall,  from  a  daguerreotype  by  Brady,  made  for  Gabriel 
Harrison's  "Life  of  Payne." 


Percival,  James  Gates,  American  poet  and  geologist,  born  in  Kensing- 
ton, Conn.,  15  September,  1795,  died  in  Hazel  Green,  Wis.,  2 
May,  1856. 

Letter  dated  New  Haven,  March  29th,  1841,  to  D.  H.  Williams, 
with  signed  manuscripts  of  three  songs:  "Evening;  Awake  my 
Lyre;  and  Hunting  song." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  W.  Smith  from  a  painting  by  Francis 
Alexander. 


Perry,  Miss  Nora,  American  author,  born  in  Dudley,  Mass.,  in  1841, 
died  in  the  same  place  13  May,  1896. 

Manuscript  of  "The  children's  cherry  feast,"  a  poem  concern- 
ing the  siege  of  the  city  of  Naumberg  by  the  Hussites  under 
Prokopius  in  1432.  The  poem  was  first  published,  with  illustra- 
tions, in  the  Wide  Awake  for  May,  1886,  volume  22,  page  347,  and 
is  included  in  the  volume  New  Songs  and  Ballads  [821.1  P4642.n] . 

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Manuscript  of  "Tyrant  Tacy,"  a  story  first  published  in  St. 
Nicholas  for  February,  1885,  volume  12,  pt.  1,  page  260,  and  is 
included  in  her  book  of  stories  A  Flock  of  Girls  [P4642 — 2] . 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Autograph  hunting  and  autographs,"  an 
article  published  in  Wide  Awake  for  February,  1886,  volume  22, 
page  191. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Cressid,"  a  poem  first  published  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly  for  April,  1885,  volume  55,  page  476,  afterward 
reprinted  in  her  volume  New  Songs  and  Ballads  [821.1  P4642.n]. 

Autograph  copy  of  the  first  stanza  of  her  poem  "Some  day  of 
days,"  published  in  her  volume  After  the  Ball  and  Her  Lover' s 
Friend,  etc.  [821.1   P4642.a]. 


Phillips,  Wendell,  American  orator  and  lecturer,  born  in  Boston,  29 
November,  1811,  died  in  the  same  city,  2  February,  1884. 

Letter,  dated  September  10  [1862],  probably  to  Theodore  Til- 
ton,  written  just  before  the  preliminary  warning  of  the  proclama- 
tion of  emancipation. 

Dear  friend  : 

Congratulate  you  on  the  baby  —  lucky  baby.  Wish  I  could  see  you  an  hour 
before  you  go  to  Washington  —  too  lazy  to  write  what  I  would  like  to  say.  No, 
I  don't  care  much  to  talk  before  that  event.  Your  private  talks  with  cabinet 
will  have  no  good  effect  except  on  yon  —  they  have  no  time,  if  they  had  the 
ability,  to  exercise  foresight  —  they  only  meet  the  hour  as  it  comes,  often  too  late. 
Presses  and  public  speakers  are  what  we  need  to  tell  the  people  what  ought  to  be 
done  &  so  teach  and  mould  the  cabinet  and  enable  them  to  do  it.  I  should  like 
to  write  an  article  &  may.  Why  did  not add  to  her  grand  his- 
tory some  concluding  hint  to  the  people  what  to  do.  Persevere  he  [she]  says  — 
good  —  but  persevere  in  what  direction  how  what  step  shall  the  Govt  take  to 
cower  John  Bull  &  checkmate  France  ? 

Tell  us  wise  men  &  we'll  demand  it  and  our  demand  will  enable  the  Govt 
to  do  it. 

Goodbye 

faithfully 

WENDELL  PHILLIPS 

Two  personal  letters  to  Theodore  Tilton,  the  first  dated  12  No- 
vember, 1860,  the  second  15  November,  1861. 

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Piatt,  John  James,  American  poet,  consul  at  Cork  from  1882  to  1893, 
born  at  Milton,  Ind.,  1  March,  1835. 

Autograph  copy  of  "  A  song  of  content,"  an  eight  line  stanza 
published  in  his  Poems  of  House  and  Home  page  35  [821.1 
P5835.p]. 


Piatt,   Sarah   Morgan  Bryan,  Mrs.    John  James  Piatt,  American  poet, 
born  in  Lexington,  Ky. ,  11  August,  1836. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "In  primrose  time,"  a  poem  first  pub- 
lished in  St.  Nicholas  for  May,  1885,  volume  12,  pt.  2,  page  497, 
afterward  used  as  the  introductory  poem  and  title  to  her  collection 
In  Frhnrose  Time  [821.1  P5836.i]. 

Autograph  copy  of  "Making  peace,"  a  poem  of  two  four  line 
stanzas  first  published  in  Scrihncr'' s  Monthly  for  November,  1874, 
volume  9,  page  31,  afterward  reprinted  in  her  volume  That  New 
World,  and  other  poems,  page  90  [821.1  P5836.t]. 


Picard,  George    Henry,    x\merican    physician    and    novelist,   born    in 
Berea,  Ohio,  3  August,  1850. 

Manuscript    of   A    Alission    Flower;    an   American   Jiovel,    pub- 
lished in  1885  [P5863— 1]. 


Pierpont,  The  Rev.  John,  American  clergyman,  poet,  lawyer  and 
reformer,  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  6  April,  1785,  died  in  Med- 
ford,  Mass.,  26  August,  1806. 

Letter,   dated  West   Medford,  Mass.,   11    December,    1854,    to 
Norman  C.  Perkins. 

Mr.  Pierpont,  who  was  the  author  of  the  famous  "  Airs  of  Pales- 

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tine,"  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  of  Medford  at  the 
time  of  this  letter  : 

"  I  send  you  these  lines  on  the  marvelous  and  fearful  science  of 

PSYCHOMETRY. 
We  stamp  ourselves  on  every  page  w^e  write  : 
That  page  shall  bring  our  hidden  things  to  light. 

Send  you  a  note  to  China  or  the  pole, 

Where'er  the  winds  blow  or  the  waters  roll, 

That  note  shall  bear  the  impress  of  your  soul. 

We  must,  therefore,  be  a  little  careful  what  we  commit  to  paper  by  way  of 
complying  with  the  requests  of  our  friends  that  we  would  favor  them  with  our 
autograph." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  S.  Sadd  from  a  daguerreotype  by 
Whipple. 


Pillsbury,  Parker,  American  anti-slavery  reformer,  born  in  Hamilton, 
Mass.,  22  September,  1809,  died  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  7  July,  1898. 

Letter,  dated  Concord,  N.  H.,  22  June,  1863,  to  Theodore  Til- 
ton.  The  letter  represents  the  most  radical  anti-slavery  opinion  at 
this  time  of  excited  feeling.  The  following  extract  from  a  descrip- 
tion by  James  Russell  Lowell  of  the  abolitionists  at  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Bazaar  at  Faneuil  Hall,  22  December,  1846,  is,  a  younger 
contemporary  says,  '*a  wonderfully  graphic  sketch  of  Pillsbury, 
who  was  always  at  a  white  heat  in  any  case," 

"  Beyond,  a  crater  in  each  eye, 

Sways  brown,  broad-shouldered  Pillsbury, 
Who  tears  up  words  like  trees  by  roots, 
A  Theseus  in  stout  cowhide  boots, 
The  wager  of  eternal  war 
Against  that  loathsome  Minotaur 
To  whom  we  sacrifice  each  year 
The  best  blood  of  our  Athens  here  — 
***** 

A  terrible  denouncer  he, 
Old  Sinai  burns  unquenchably 
Upon  his  lips  ;  he  well  might  be  a 
Hot-blazing  soul  from  fierce  Judea, 
Habakkuk,  Ezra,  or  Ilosea." 


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The  letter,  omitting  some  slight  personalities,  is  as  follows  : 

Dear  Friend  : 

I  am  forbidden  to  write  or  speak,  unless  there  be  more  than  ordinary  reason. 
But  reading  tlie  apology  for  Charles  Sumner's  part  in  the  Stevenson  Brigadier- 
ship  by  your  (and  our)  Washington  correspondent  "Avon"  moved  to  say  that 
though  the  offence  was  most  ineffably  mean,  the  explanation  seems  to  me  (/'<?  we, 
understand)  worse  indescribably.  And  Avon  is  Seward's  man  also  of  late. 
What  has  got  into  him  ?  And  now  Hunter  is  bidden  to  i>iU  the  dust.  What  is 
the  apology  for  that  ?  Freemont  {thus)  and  Butler,  Hamilton  and  Hunter,  Siegel 
and  Stringham  —  all  shelved  !  !     Well. 

Did  you  read  about  our  grand  gathering,  here  in  Concord,  the  other  day  ?  Do 
not  overlook  Blair's  speech  in  it  (or  to  it,  or  at  it)  as  you  please.  And  remember 
he  spoke  for  Washington  ;  especially  for  Lincoln,  And  let  me  tell  you  that  ten 
thousand  people  came  here  to  meet  "Freemont  and  Jessie"  who  were  advertized 
and  re-advertized  and  cross  advertized  when  the  getters  up  of  the  affair  knew  that 
in  detailing  Blair,  they  inevitably  excluded  Freemont  !  "Freemont  and  Jessie" 
were  only  "decoy  ducks";  and  I  hope  somebody  will  tell  them  so  —  and  tell  them 
also  how  little  the  regency  here  seemed  to  regret  their  abscence  !     Dry  eyes  had  they. 

I  hope  we  shall  hear  less  about  "Honest  Abe"  in  some  quarters,  now  that 
Blair  has  blared  so  loud  for  his  re-election,  and  on  a  basis  as  damnably  negro  hating 
as  hell  and  Hunkerdom  can  desire.  And  the  colored  population  are  to  come 
and  fight  our  battles  for  us  on  such  terms  as  these ;  on  part  pay  and  all  white 
officers,  at  that  !  !  And  Garrisonian  abolitionists  have  left  their  proper  work  to 
assist  in  this  adding  new  insults  to  old  injuries  by  aiding  to  enlist  them.  Dear  me  ! 
May  I  never  recover  my  health,  if  it  cannot  be  used  to  better  purpose.  Rather 
this  night  let  me  die.  Does  the  Independent  thunder  like  Patmos  and  Mount 
Horeb  in  Mr.  Beecher's  abscence?  I  threw  the  Tribune  to  the  dogs  when  you 
took  Greeley  so  well  in  hand.  It  comes  every  day  yet  but  I  send  it  no  more 
dollars.  And  Gerrit  Smith  too  must  bow  the  knee.  His  excuses  wont  do. 
Men  like  him  have  no  right  to  talk  in  that  way  to  the  delight  of  all  Hunkers  at 
a  time  like  this.  He  meant  well  enough  no  doubt  —  but  that  doesn't  help  the  case 
at  all.  He  misleads  thousands  who  would  be  true  as  the  polar  star  only  that  he 
and  Greeley  bewilder  them  and  cause  them  to  fall.  I  hear  such  men  talk  every 
day  good  men  at  heart  too.  Don't  this  letter  (so  badly  written  withal)  make 
you  glad  I  am  disabled?  A  good  many  I  understand  are  glad  enough  that  my 
powers  are  paralyzed.     It  may  be  for  the  best. 

Your  ever  faithful  friend, 

PARKER  PILLSBURY. 


Poe,  Edgar  Allan,  American  poet,  born  in  Boston,  19  January,  1809, 
died  in  Baltimore,  7  October,  1849. 


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Letter,  dated  Philadelphia,  22  April,  1843,  to  Thomas  G. 
Mackenzie  as  follows  : 

JMy  Dear  Thomas  : 

About  a  fortnight  ago  I  wrote  to  Peter  D.  Bernard,  wlio  married  one  of  T.  W. 
White's  daughters,  and  made  inquiry  about  "The  Southern  Literary  Messenger" 
but  have  received  no  reply.  I  am  very  anxious  to  ascertain  if  it  is  for  sale,  and  if 
it  is,  I  wish  to  purchase  it  (through  my  friends  here).  You  wrote  me,  some  time 
ago,  that  the  heirs  had  not  made  up  their  minds  respecting  it.  Would  you  do 
me  the  favor,  now,  to  call  upon  I'ernard,  or  upon  some  one  of  the  other  heirs, 
and  inquire  about  it? 

I  can't  imagine  why  Bernard  did  not  reply  to  my  letter.  If  the  list  is  for  sale 
I  would  make  arrangements  for  its  immediate  purchase  upon  terms  which  would 
be  fully  satisfactory  to  the  heirs.  But  do  not  let  them  suppose  I  am  too  anxious. 
By  the  bye,  there  may  be  some  prejudice,  on  the  part  of  the  heirs,  against  me 
individually,  on  account  of  my  quitting  White  —  suppose,  then,  you  get  some 
one  of  your  friends  to  negotiate  for  you  and  don't  let  me  be  known  in  the 
business  at  all.  Merely  ascertain  if  the  list  is  for  sale  and  upon  what  terms. 
Please  oblige  me  in  this  matter  as  soon  as  possible,  as  I  am  exceedingly  anxious 
about  it.  Tell  Rose  that  Virginia  is  much  better,  toe  and  all,  and  that  sh«  has 
been  out  lately,  several  times,  taking  long  walks.  She  sends  a  great  deal  of  love 
to  all.     Remember  me  kindly  to  the  whole  family  and  believe  me 

Yours  most  truly 

EDGAR  A.   POE. 
Portrait,  engraved  by  F.  T.  Stuart. 


Pope,  Alexander,  English  poet,  born  in  London,  21   May,  1688,  died 
at  Twickenham,  30  May,  1744. 

Letter,  dated  Twickenham,  17  January,  1740-1,  to  John  Brins- 
den,  secretary  to  Lord  Bolingbroke,  of  interest  only  as  a  specimen 
of  the  poet's  handwriting. 

Portraits :  1,  engraving  by  J.  A.  J.  Wilcox ;  2,  engraving, 
nameless. 


Porter,  Miss  Rose,  American  author,  born  in  New  York  City  in  1845. 

Signed  manuscript  of  Honoria,  or  the  Gospel  of  a  Life,   a  novel 
published  in  New  York,  1885  [P8477— 1]. 

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Preston,  Miss  Harriet  Waters,  American  author,  well  known  as  a 
translator,  especially  from  the  French  and  Provencal,  born  in  Dan- 
vers,  Mass.,  about  1843. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Miss  Ingelow  and  Mrs.  Walford,"  an 
article  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  August,  1885,  volume 
56,  page  230. 

\ 

Prime,  The  Rev.  Samuel  Iren?eus,  American  author  and  clergyman, 
editor  of  the  New  York  Observer  from  1840  to  1885,  born  at 
Ballston,  N.  Y.,  6  November,  1812,  died  at  Manchester,  Vt.,  18 
July,  1885. 

Letter,  dated  2  October,  1855,  to  Theodore  Tilton,  congratulat- 
ing him  upon  his  marriage.  Mr.  Tilton  was,  during  this  year,  a 
member  of  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Observer. 

Portrait,  erigraving. 


Procter,  Miss  Adelaide  Anne,  eldest  child  of  Bryan  Waller  Procter, 
English  poet,  born  in  London,  30  October,  1825,  died  at  Malvern, 
2  February,  1864. 

Manuscript  of  a  sonnet, 

"CALVUS. 

Bald  mortal  Ihou  dost  ape  the  skeleton 

That  satirizes  man  and  all  his  doings 

From  every  open'd  grave,  and  shouldst  seem  one, 

But  for  the  glowworm  which  is  in  thine  eyes, 

And  certain  airs  that  from  thy  lips  arise. 

Why  now  to  see  thee  at  thine  amorous  wooings 

Or  gravely  preaching  immortality, 

To  which  thy  living  death's  head  gives  the  lie, 

Would  make  the  shadow  that  all  life  receiveth 

Shake  his  dim  sides  with  horrible  derision. 

Tell  us,  old  Calvus  !  what  about  thee  cleaveth. 

To  make  distinction  still  between  the  vision 

Of  a  death's  head  and  thine?     Get  thee  false  hair 

For  thy  sole  privilege  to  upper  air." 

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Procter,  Bryan  Waller,  English  poet,  writing  chiefly  under  the  pen- 
name  "Barry  Cornwall,"  born  at  Leeds,  21  November,  1787,  died 
in  London,  5  October,  1874. 

Manuscript  of  "  The  blood  horse,"  a  poem  printed  in  his  q.o\- 
\&ci\on  English  songs,  and  other  small  poems  [821.2  P9631.e]. 

Portrait,  engraved. 


Pugh,  Sarah,    American   reformer,    friend  and   co-laborer  of   Lucretia 
Mott. 

Postscript  to  letter  from  Lucretia  Mott  to  Theodore  Tilton,  18 
March,  1870. 


Rame,  Louise  de  la,  English  author,  known  by  her  pen-name  "  Ouida," 
who  has  lived  for  many  years  in  Italy,  born  at  Bury  St.  Edmunds 
in  1840. 

Proofsheets,  with  author's  emendations,  of  an  article  on 
"Female  suffrage,"  published  in  the  North  American  Review  (ox 
September,  1886,  volume  143,  page  190. 


Read,  Thomas  Buchanan,  American  poet  and  painter,  born  in  Chester 
Co.,  Pa.,  12  March,  1822,  died  in  New  York,  11  May,  1872. 

Signed  autograph  copy  of  the  first  five  lines  of  the  second 
stanza  of  his  poem  "The  flag  of  the  constellation,"  published  in 
his  Poetical  Works,  volume  3,  page  290  [821.1  R2846— 1]. 


Reade,  Charles,  English  novelist,  born  at  Ipsden,  Oxfordshire,  8  June, 
1814,  died  in  London,  11  April,  1884. 

A  series  of  letters,  dated  Knightsbridge,  May  21-26th  [1869],  to 
Benjamin  Webster,  manager  of  the  Adelphi  theater,  concerning 
the  play  "  Dora,"  founded  on  Tennyson's  poem  of  the  same  name, 

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with  manuscript  directions  concerning  the  play.  Also,  printed 
text  of  the  play,  and  copies  of  various  songs  used  as  incidental 
music  in  connection  with  the  play. 

Portrait,  engraved  from  a  photograph,  anonymous. 


Reid,  Whitelaw,  American  journalist,  editor  and  principal  owner  of 
the  New  York  Tribune  since  1872,  born  near  Xenia,  Ohio,  27 
October,  1837. 

Letter,  dated  Washington,  6th  July,  1864,  to  Theodore  Tilton. 
Mr.  Reid  was  at  this  time  the  correspondent  of  the  Cincinnati 
Gazette  in  Washington  and  this  was  also  the  period  of  strained 
relations  between  President  Lincoln  and  Secretary  Chase,  to  which 
the  letter  alludes. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  from  an  early  photograph  by  Sarony. 


Richter,  Jean  Paul  Friedrich,  German  author  writing  under  the  name 
Jean  Paul,  born  in  Bayreuth,  21  March,  1763,  died  in  the  same 
place,  14  November,  1825. 

Personal  letter,  dated  Baireut,  29  July,  1809,  to  Hofrath  Haug 
at  Stuttgart. 

Collection  of  newspaper  cuttings  of  biographical  notices,  trans- 
lations and  criticisms. 

Portraits :  1,  engraved  by  Adrian  Sleich  from  the  painting  by 
Friedrich  Meyer  in  1811  ;  2,  engraved  by  C.  A.  Schwerdge- 
burth  from  a  painting  by  C.  Vogel ;  3,  engraved  by  J.  Sartain 
from  a  painting  by  Fiirster ;  4,  wood-engraving,  nameless. 


Robertson,  William,  Scotch  historian,  born  at  Borthwick,  Midlothian, 
19  September,  1721,  died  near  Edinburgh,  11  June,  1793. 

Letter  dated  "  College  of  Edinburgh,  May  6th,  1773  "  to  William 
Smith,  chief  justice  of  the  provinces  of   New  York,    1763,  and 

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author  of  "History  of  the  province  of  New  York  from  its  discov- 
ery to  1762"  [973  14,v4,5]  ;  together  with  a  series  of  ''Queries 
relating  to  the  manners  of  the  Indians." 

The  letter  and  queries  were  preparatory  for  the  writer's  famous 
History  of  A?nerica  [970  9]  published  in  1777.  In  the  preface 
he  acknowledges  his  indebtedness  for  help  from  William  Smith. 

The  letter,  omitting  some  personalities,  is  as  follows  : 

Sir  : 

I  have  already  collected  most  of  the  books  relating  to  the  history  of  the  Colo- 
nies, together  with  their  various  Codes  of  laws,  and  what  I  still  want  I  shall  be 
able  to  pick  up  here  or  in  London,  so  that  I  need  not  give  you  any  trouble  with 
respect  to  these.  I  am  fully  sensible  of  what  you  say  concerning  the  importance 
and  utility  of  a  full  representation  of  the  present  state  of  our  Colonies  and  the 
difficulty  of  procuring  such  accurate  information  as  may  preserve  one  from  mis- 
takes and  even  from  gross  blunders.  When  I  have  looked  into  this  branch  of  my 
subject  with  some  more  attention,  and  have  formed  my  own  ideas  with  regard  to 
it,  I  shall  then  be  able  to  propose  queries  with  greater  discernment,  and  I  hope 
then  to  derive  great  advantage  from  the  correspondence  to  which  you  invite  me. 

My  first  object  has  been  the  progress  of  the  Spanish  discoveries,  and  the  state 
and  manners  of  the  aboriginal  inhabitants  of  America.  By  the  interposition  of 
Lord  Grantham,  our  ambassador  at  Madrid,  to  whom  I  have  the  honour  to  be 
known  personally,  I  have  procured  much  information  from  Spain,  and  by  the 
good  offices  of  Mr.  Waddilove,  chaplain  to  the  Ambassy  I  have  obtained  the 
most  compleat  collection  of  Spanish  books  relative  to  America  that  ever  was  in 
Britain.  I  flatter  myself  that  I  have  been  able  to  give  a  more  accurate  account 
of  the  manners  of  the  natives  and  more  authentic  representation  of  the  state  of 
the  country  than  any  that  has  hitherto  been  published.  A  view  of  the  human 
species  in  the  rudeness  of  its  early  and  infant  state  is  a  curious  and  instructive 
article  in  the  history  of  man  and  has  never  been  exhibited  by  any  but  persons 
blinded  or  deceived  by  some  favourite  system  which  they  had  formed.  As  I 
wish  to  obtain  all  the  information  possible  concerning  the  condition  and  charac- 
ter of  man  in  this  stage  of  his  existence  I  have  taken  the  liberty  to  inclose  a 
set  of  Queries  relating  to  the  manners  of  the  Indians.  You  (as  I  learn  from  your 
History)  have  already  given  some  attention  to  inquiries  of  this  kind,  and  I  sup- 
pose that  you  can  procure  me  some  intelligence  with  respect  to  the  points  I 
mention  in  the  Queries.  Many  of  them,  I  am  aware,  will  appear  to  you  trifling 
and  uninteresting  and  perhaps  they  are  so.  But  they  have  all  some  refer- 
ence either  to  ideas  of  my  own,  or  to  some  of  those  systems  concerning  rude 
Nations,  particularly  the  Americans,  which  have  been  published  by  M.  Buffon, 
the  Author  of  Recherches  Philosophiqiies  sier  les  A  mericains,  by  Rousseau  etc.  I 
flatter  myself  that  you  will  be  so  good  as  to  obtain  for  me  any  elucidation  of 
these  points  which  you  think  may  be  useful  to  me  as  soon  as  you  can.  I  accom- 
pany this  request  with  no  apology,  your  friendly  offer  leaves  me  no  room  to  doubt 

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that  you  will  not  grudge  the  labour  of  executing  such  a  commission.  The  book 
to  which  you  allude,  viz.  Political  Essays  concerning  the  British  Empire  is  not 
written  by  Lord  Kaims.  I  know  not  the  author  but  it  is  a  work  of  merit.  I 
shall  flatter  myself  with  the  hopes  of  hearing  from  you  soon,  and  I  have  the 
honour  to  be  with  great  respect 
Sir 

Your  most  obedient  and  obliged 
humble  Servant 

WILLIAM  ROBERTSON. 

QUERIES. 

Is  the  bodily  constitution  of  the  Indians  as  vigorous  and  robust  as  that  of  people 
of  similar  climates  on  the  ancient  continent  ? 

Is  the  beardless  countenance  and  want  of  hair  upon  every  part  of  the  body  but 
the  head  natural  to  the  Indians  ? 

N.  E.  The  most  accurate  Spanish  and  French  travellers,  who  have  viewed  the 
Indians  in  every  climate  of  America,  represent  this  defect  as  universal  and  con- 
sider it  as  a  natural  distinction  of  the  Americans.  I  observe  that  in  a  note  p.  37 
of  your  history  of  N.  York  you  seem  to  think  it  is  not  natural,  but  it  appears  to 
me  more  strange  that  all  the  tribes  scattered  over  America  from  Cape  Horn  to 
the  river  St.  Lawrence  should  agree  in  one  custom  of  plucking  out  their  hair,  than 
that  they  should  naturally  want  it.  Lawson  in  his  New  Voyage  to  Carolina 
Lond.  1709.  4  to  p.  52  mentions  his  having  seen  Indians  with  beards.  A  well 
attested  fact  will  destroy  at  once  any  reasoning  and  theory.  But  is  this  fact  well 
attested? 

Are  the  Indians  defective  in  animal  passion  for  their  females  and  does  their 
constitutional  vigour  seem  to  be  less  in  this  respect  than  that  of  the  people  of 
the  ancient  continent  ? 

The  Spanish  and  French  Missionaries  describe,  with  astonishment,  the  cold- 
ness and  chastity  of  the  Indians,  not  only  in  temperate  and  northern  climates  but 
in  the  torrid  zone.  Lawson  and  Brickell  in  their  accounts  of  Carolina  represent 
their  manners  in  a  very  different  light.  You  as  I  see  p.  37  have  received  informa- 
tion which  confirms  this.  I  should  wish  to  have  this  more  fully  explained  ;  par- 
ticularly 

Have  their  Songs  and  Dances  any  reference  to  love  and  gallantry,  or  are  they 
rather  martial  and  formal  ? 

Does  their  common  discourse  turn  often  upon  love  and  the  animal  passion 
between  the  sexes? 

Is  the  appetite  of  Indians  for  food  greater  or  less  than  that  of  Europeans  ? 

Is  the  period  of  human  life  among  them  longer  or  shorter  than  in  the  other 
continent? 

What  are  the  diseases  to  which  they  are  most  subject  ? 

Does  Polygamy  take  place  among  the  Indians  of  North  America? 

Are  their  marriages  permanent,  or  when  dissolved,  how  ai'e  the  children  dis- 
posed of? 

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What  is  the  character  of  their  women  with  regard  to  chastity  both  before  and 
after  marriage? 

How  are  the  women  treated  by  their  husbands  ? 

Whether  are  the  Indian  women  prolifick  ? 

Do  many  of  their  children  die  in  nonage  ? 

What  is  the  state  of  parental  tenderness  and  affection  among  them  and  what 
the  returns  of  filial  duty  and  respect  when  compared  with  what  takes  place  in 
other  nations  ? 

What  are  their  ideas  of  property  ? 

Whether  does  the  product  of  their  agriculture  and  the  game  taken  in  hunting 
belong  to  the  community  or  to  the  individual  ? 

What  degree  of  authority  do  their  Sachems  or  Chiefs  possess?  Is  it  confined 
solely  to  military  command  or  is  it  exercised  likewise  during  peace? 

Is  the  authoi-ity  of  their  chiefs  hereditary  or  elective  or  does  it  result  tacitly 
from  their  merit  and  eminent  qualities  ? 

Do  they  exercise  any  criminal  jurisdiction  by  punishing  such  as  are  guilty  of 
acts  of  violence  or  is  the  right  of  revenge  left  wholly  in  the  hands  of  private 
persons  ? 

What  are  the  motives  and  objects  of  their  wars  ? 

Whether  are  many  of  their  prisoners  spared  and  adopted  or  are  they  mostly  put 
to  death  ? 

Whether  is  their  fortitude  under  torture  general  or  do  many  of  them  shrink  or 
lose  spirit  under  their  sufferings  ? 

Do  they  in  their  works  of  art  discover  any  considerable  degree  of  contrivance 
and  ingenuity  ? 

When  they  settle  among  Europeans,  or  have  much  intercourse  with  them,  do 
they  discover  any  talents  for  mechanical  arts  or  acquire  habits  of  industry  ? 

Have  they  any  Songs  or  Poems  comprising  any  traditional  history  of  their 
country  or  relating  the  actions  of  their  great  warriors? 

Could  a  literal  translation  be  procured  of  some  of  those  poetical  compositions 
if  any  such  there  be  ? 

Have  they  any  idea  of  a  Deity  whom  they  suppose  to  be  the  Creator  and 
Governour  of  the  world  ? 

Have  they  rites  which  may  be  denominated  religious  or  are  any  of  them 
singular  and  remarkable  ? 

What  are  their  ideas  concerning  a  future  state  ? 

Whether  is  the  language  of  each  tribe  distinct  or  may  all  the  dialects  of  North 
America  be  referred  (as  the  French  Missionaries  assert)  to  two  or  three  mother 
languages  ? 

The  short  account  of  the  Iroquois  language  which  you  have  published  p.  39  is 
curious,  but  if  you  can  apply  for  information  to  any  person  who  has  had  a  liberal 
education  I  should  wish  to  have  his  ideas  concerning  the  genius  and  structure 
of  their  language. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Ridley  and  published  by  J.  Sewell  in 
1802. 

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Rogers,  Samuel,  English  poet,  born  at  Stoke  Newington,  30  July,  1763? 
died  at  Hornsey,  18  December,  1855. 

Note  without  place  or  date  to  Miss  Mary  Sharpe,  and  brief  auto- 
biographical notes. 


Rohlfs,  Anna  Katharine  Green,  Mrs.  Charles  Rohlfs,  American  novel- 
ist, born  on  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  in  1846. 

Manuscripts  of  three  poems:  ''Through  the  trees;  In  farewell  ; 
Ode  to  Grant."  The  first  two  poems  are  included  in  her  volume 
The  Defence  of  the  Bride,  and  other  poems  [821.1  G975.d]. 


Rossetti,  Dante  Charles  Gabriel,  English  poet  and  painter,  born  in 
London,  12  May,  1828,  died  at  Birchington,  near  Margate,  10 
April,  1882. 

Manuscript  of  a  sonnet  on  Coleridge,  written  in  1880,  printed 
as  one  of  a  set  of  sonnets  on  five  English  poets,  Chatterton,  Blake, 
Coleridge,  Keats  and  Shelley,  in  his  Ballads  and  Sonnets  [821.2 
R8292.b]. 

The  lines  vary  somewhat  from  the  printed  form  and  are  printed 
in  full : 

"COLERIDGE. 

His  soul  fared  forth  even  as  the  Father-dove 

Through  hidden  places  plies  his  hour-long  quest, 

To  feed  his  soul-brood  hungering  in  the  nest  ; 
But  his  warm  Heart,  the  mother-bird,  above 
Their  callow  fledgling  progeny  still  hove 

With  tented  roof  of  wings  and  fostering  breast 

Till  the  Soul  fed  the  soul-brood.     Richly  blest 
From  Heaven  their  growth,  whose  food  was  human  love. 

Yet  ah  !     Like  desart  pools  that  show  the  stars 

Once  in  long  leagues, —  even  such  the  scarce-snatched  hours 

Which  deepening  pain  left  to  his  lordliest  powers, — 
Heaven  lost  through  spider-trammelled  prison-bars  ! 

Five  years  from  seventy  saved  !     Yet  kindling  skies 

Own  them  a  beacon  to  our  centuries." 

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Letter  dated  Wednesday  [13  April,  1881]  to  Mr.  F.  S.  Ellis,  of 
the  firm  of  Ellis  and  White,  his  publishers. 

My  dear  Ellis  : 

Thanks  for  your  note.  Is  it  likely  that  there  will  now  be  a  break  in  the  print- 
ing owing  to  the  Easter  week?  I  have  a  friend  coming  to  town  to  whom  I 
should  like  to  show  the  "King's  Tragedy"  on  some  historical  grounds  and 
should  thus  like  to  have  the  M.  S.  by  Saturday  morning,  if  not  likely  to  be  in 
use  for  some  days.     Of  course  I  suppose  they  could  not  get  it  all  in  type  by  then. 

Yours  ever 

D.  G.   ROSSETTI 

P.  S.  Pray  pardon  trouble.  Thanks  for  the  descriptive  papers  safe  to  hand. 
I  have  received  this  evening  sheet  1  of  the  "  King's  Tragedy." 


Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,    French  author,  born   in  Geneva,  28  June, 
1712,  died  at  Ermenonville,  near  Paris,  3  July,  1778. 

Letter,  dated  Montmorency,  18  February,  1758,  to  M.  Jacob 
Vernes,  a  Swiss  protestant  theologian,  who  later  attacked  Rous- 
seau's opinions  in  his  book  Lettres  et  Dialogues  snr  le  Christianisme 
de  J.  J.  Rousseau.  The  letter  is  long  and  characteristic,  dwelling 
on  his  isolation  and  ill-health  and  discussing  at  some  length  his 
religious  philosophy.  It  is  published  in  Rousseau's  CEuvres  com- 
piles, 1793,  volume  1,  page  179  [840  296],  also  in  his  (Euvrcs, 
1817,  volume  1,  page  448  [840  102]. 

Portrait,  engraving,  nameless. 


Ruskin,  John,  English  art  critic  and  author,  born  in  London,  8  Febru- 
ary, 1819. 

Letter,  dated  Corpus  Christi  College,  Oxford,  14  February, 
1876,  to  Sir  John  Gilbert,  at  Vanbrugh  Park,  Blackheath,  Lon- 
don. Mr.  Ruskin  was  Slade  Professor  of  Fine  Art  in  Oxford  at 
the  time  of  this  letter,  which  is  as  follows  : 

Aly  dear  Sir  yohn  : 

Indeed  I  am  most  grateful  for  your  letter,  and  proud  of  its  kind  expression  of 
wish  that  I  should  have  some  part  in  the  honour  of  the  dear  old  room. 

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But  I  had  nothing  by  me  but  what  I  was  ashamed  to  send.  I  can  only  draw 
in  black  &  white  just  now,  for  engraving,  or  else  natural  history  detail  not  im- 
portant enough  for  exhibition. 

I  have  more  writing  to  do  and  more  business  every  day  and  what  little  skill  my 
fingers  had  must  soon  leave  them  :  but  I  hope  yet  to  send  a  sketch  or  two  of 
skies,  some  day,  if  ever  we  see  the  sky  again.  I  wish  my  St.  George's  company 
were  gaining  ground  fast  enough  for  us  to  hope  to  have  Sir  John  Gilbert  draw 
some  of  our  battles  for  us.  But  believe  me  Ever  my  dear  Sir  John  faithfully 
and  heartily  yours 

J.   RUSKIN. 

Manuscript  of  passages  from  the  essay,  "Qui  judicatis  terram," 
from  Unto  This  Last,  Wiley  edition,  1869,  p.  70,  77  [330  58]. 

Portraits:  1,  steel-engraving,  anonymous,  from  drawing;  2, 
process  reproduction  of  a  drawing  by  B.  Lander  from  a  photo- 
graph from  life. 


Saint  Pierre,  Jacques  Henri  Bernardin  de,  French  author,  born  at 
Havre,  19  January,  1737,  died  at  Eragny,  near  Pontoise,  21 
January,  1814. 

Part  of  a  personal  letter,  without  place,  date  or  address,  giving  a 
very  good  specimen  of  the  author's  handwriting  and  signature. 

Portrait,  engraving,  nameless. 


Sainte  -  Beuve,  Charles  Augustin,  French  critic  and  poet,  born  at 
Boulogne-sur-Mer,  23  December,  1804,  died  in  Paris,  13  October, 
1869. 

Short  note  without  place  or  date,  giving  a  specimen  of  M.  Sainte- 
Beuve's  handwriting  and  signature. 


Sala,  George  Augustus  Henry,  English  journalist  and  author,  born  in 
London,  24  November,  1828,  died  at  Brighton,  8  December, 
1895. 

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Manuscript  of  an  article  called  "On  a  certain  team  of  horses," 
seven  pages  of  the  very  clear,  microscopic  handwriting  of  the 
famous  journalist. 


Sanborn,  The  Rev.  Franklin  Benjamin,  American  journalist  and  author, 
born  in  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  15  December,  1831. 

Manuscript  of  a  sermon  on  "  Immortality,"  Luke  xvii :   21,  and 
XXI :   38,  preached  at  Elmira,  19  April,  1885. 


Savage,  The  Rev.  Minot  Judson,  American  clergyman  and  author, 
pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Unity,  Boston,  since  1874,  born  at 
Norridgewock,  Me.,  10  June,  1841. 

Original  manuscript  of  a  sermon  preached  at  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  dedication  of  the  Church  of  the  Unity,  Boston, 
1884. 

Autograph  copy  of  poem  "Where  is  God?"  dated  Boston,  16 
April,  1886. 

Portrait,  wood-engraving  by  A.  C.  Russell  from  photograph. 


Saxe,  John  Godfrey,  American  lawyer  and  poet,  born  in  Highgate,  Vt., 
2  June,  1816,  died  in  Albany,  31  March,  1887. 

Letter,  dated  Albany,  N.  Y.,  15  April,  1872,  to  James  R. 
Osgood  concerning  the  selection  of  Augustus  Hoppin  as  the 
illustrator  for  a  holiday  edition  of  Saxe's  poem  "The  proud  Miss 
MacBride."     The  edition,  as  discussed,  was  issued  in  1873. 


Scott,  Sir  Walter,  Scotch   novelist  and  poet,  born  in  Edinburgh,  15 
August,  1771,  died  at  Abbotsford,  21  September,  1832. 

Manuscript    of  part    of  an    essay    on    "Chivalry,"    written    in 
1814,  for  the  Supplement  to  the  fourth  and  fifth  editions  of  the 

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Encyclopgedia  Britannica,  of  which  the  first  part  was  published  in 
December,  1815.  The  essay  was  incorporated  into  the  body  of 
the  seventh  edition  and  retained  its  place  in  the  eighth,  but  was 
omitted  in  the  ninth.  Scott  received  one  hundred  pounds  for  the 
essay.  It  has  been  reprinted  together  with  the  essays  on  ''Drama  " 
and  on  "Romance"  which  were  written  for  the  same  work 
[940.1  19]. 

The  manuscript  is  accompanied  by  the  following  note  from  Scott : 

Sir: 

I  am  obliged  with  your  flattering  letter  and  readily  send  you  the  specimen  you 
wish  to  possess  of  my  handwriting.     I  am  sorry  to  say  neither  my  hand  or  eyes 
are  so  good  as  when  I  was  younger. 
I  am  sir 


Your  obedient  servant 

WALTER  SCOTT. 


Edinburgh 
25  Feby  1826. 


Scudder,  Horace  Elisha,  American  author,  born  in  Boston,  16  October, 
1838. 

Manuscript  of  the  first  draft  of  "The  golden  egg  and  cock  of 
gold,"  a  story  written  in  1861  or  1862  and  first  published  in  Dream 
Children  [j  S4364.d]  in  Cambridge,  1864.  The  story  was  trans- 
lated into  Latin  by  J.  H.  Allen  and  published  in  Allen's  Latm 
Primer  in  1870. 

Portrait,  wood-cut,  from  a  photograph. 


Sedgwick,  Miss  Catherine  Maria,  American  author  and  teacher,  born 
at  Stockbridge,  Mass.,  28  December,  1789,  died  near  Roxbury 
Mass.,  31  July,  1867. 

Letter,   dated  9  January,   1856,  to   Miss   Peabody,   concerning 
some  private  charity  in  which  both  were  interested. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  P.  Halpin  from  a  painting  by  Ingham. 

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Seward,  William  Henry,  American  statesman,  secretary  of  state  during 
President  Lincoln's  administration,  born  at  Florida,  Orange  Co., 
N.   Y.,    16    May,   1801,    died    at    Auburn,    N.   Y.,   10    October, 

1872. 

Note,  without  place  or  date,  to  the  President,  as  follows  : 

"Mr.  Everett  consents  that  you  see  the  inclosed  correspondence.  It  reveals 
the  coldness,  almost  the  ill  will,  of  the  British  Government  from  the  first.  I 
wonder  at  its  short  sightedness." 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  H.  Ritchie  from  a  photograph. 


Shaw,  Henry  Wheeler,  American  humorist,  better  known  as  "Josh 
Billings,"  born  in  Lanesborough,  Mass.  21  April,  1818,  died  in 
Monterey,  Cal.,  14  October,  1885. 

Manuscript  of  forty-two  aphorisms  published  from  month  to 
month  during  the  year  1885  in  the  Century  under  the  title  "  Uncle 
Esek's  Wisdom." 

Portrait,  etched  by  H.  B.  Hall  from  a  photograph  by  Sarony, 


Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe,  English  poet,  born  at  Field  Place,  Warnham, 
4  August,  1792,  drowned  near  Leghorn,  Italy,  8  July,  1822. 

Letter,  dated  Marlow,  13  July,  1817,  probably  to  C.  &  J.  Oilier, 
Shelley's  publishers  at  this  time,  ordering  a  copy  of  Coleridge's 
Sibylline  Leaves,  which  had  recently  been  published. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  W.  Finden  from  Miss  Curran's  painting, 
1819. 


Shenstone,  William,  English  poet,  born  at  Halesowen,  Worcestershire, 
13  November,  1714,  died  at  Leasowes,  11  February,  1763. 

Autograph   endorsement  on  a  manuscript  written  by  Mr.   Dal- 
rymple,  dated  18  March,  1760.     Also  copy  by  Mr.  Shenstone  of  a 

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letter  written  by  Mr.  Spence  to  the  Rev'^''  Mr.   W ,  Septem- 
ber 9,  1751. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  W.  Ridley  from  a  drawing. 


Sherman,  Frank  Dempster,  American  poet,  born  at  Peekskill,  N.  Y., 
6  May,  1860. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  A  betrothal,"  a  poem  first  published  in 
the  Centuij,  for  May,  1886,  volume  10,  page  61,  and  reprinted  in 
his  volume  Madrigals  and  Catches  [821.1  S553.m]. 


Sigourney,  Lydia  Huntley,  American  author  and  philanthropist,  born 
in  Norwich,  Conn.,  1  September,  1791,  died  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
10  June,  1865. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "The  butterfly,"  a  poem  of  two  stanzas 
published  in  her  collection  called  Focahofiias,  and  other  poems 
[821.1  S578.p]. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Burt  from  a  painting  by  Francis  Alexander 
in  1828. 


Sill,  Edward  Rowland,  American  poet  and  scholar,  born  in  Windsor, 
Conn.,  29  April,  1841,  died  in  Cleveland,  27  February,  1887. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "The  crazy-quilt  memory,"  an  article 
published  in  the  "Contributors'  Club"  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
for  April,  1886,  volume  57,  page  570. 


Simms,    William   Gilmore,    American   novelist,    born   at    Charleston, 
S.  C,  17  April,  1806,  died  in  the  same  city,  11  June,  1870. 

Letter,  dated  Charleston,  December  18,  1867,  interesting  simply 
as  a  specimen  of  Mr.  Simms's  handwriting. 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 

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Smalley,  George  Washburne,  American  journalist,  English  corre- 
spondent for  the  Netv  York  Tribune  from  1867  to  1895,  since  1895 
the  American  correspondent  of  the  London  Times,  born  at  Frank- 
lin, Mass.,  2  June,  1833. 

Letter,  dated  31  December,  1867,  from  the  London  offices  of  the 
New  York  Tribune,  17  Henrietta  St.,  Covent  Garden,  to  Theodore 
Tilton.  The  following  extracts  from  the  letter  give  some  interesting 
details  of  the  impressions  and  feelings  of  the  American  in  London  : 

"I  should  like  to  write  to  somebody  every  day,  if  I  could,  for  I  hunger  and 
thirst  after  letters  from  home  —  and  home  means  all  America.  You  wont  know 
till  you  come  out  here  how  to  long  for  letters.  And  from  a  man  who  lives  inside 
the  newspaper  world  and  has  the  entree  of  the  Tribune  office  a  letter,  a  note,  a 

line  is  a  treasure  for  which  I  am  grateful Over  here  everybody 

thinks  you  are  all  in  the  same  boat  —  all  Republican  and  Radical  people  I  mean 
—  and  would  be  amazed  to  hear  that  W.  P.  and  H.  G.  were  not  bosom  friends. 
.  .  .  .  I  wonder  if  you  would  like  my  quiet  life  over  here.  You  may  bury 
yourself  in  London  so  many  fathoms  deep  that  nobody  will  know  of  your 
existence,  or  you  may  swim  the  stream  in  company  with  lots  of  pleasant  fellows. 
I  made  last  year  a  good  many  acquaintances  and  when  all  that  is  done  you  may 
see  all  of  London  people  and  life  you  care  to.  The  '  season '  here  you  know  is 
over  in  July  and  from  August  to  December  nobody  stays  in  town.  About  this 
time  they  begin  to  come  back  and  dinner  invitations  come  thick  upon  you.  I 
have  been  to  four  or  five  within  a  fortnight  —  am  to  dine  on  Thursday  with  King- 
lake.  All  summer  we  spent  at  Norwood  within  a  few  minutes  of  the  Crystal 
Palace  which  was  Fairy  Land  for  the  children 

Do  you  remember  the  old  grandees  in  the  Newcomes  that  formerly  lived  in 
Harley  St.  and  all  had  the  same  plate  and  servants  and  had  the  same  dinners  ? 
We  are  in  the  next  street,  close  to  Cavendish  square.  As  for  these  offices  I 
believe  they  are  part  of  the  property  which  Henry  VIII  confiscated  away  from 
the  monks  and  gave  to  the  Duke  of  Bedford,  or  an  ancestor  of  the  Duke  not  a 
Duke  in  those  days,  as  to  which  I  am  not  learned.  But  this  is  a  real  delight, 
and  perhaps  almost  the  best  in  London  next  to  the  living  men,  to  find  yourself 
every  day  and  ten  times  a  day  passing  through  streets  and  by  buildings  which  are 
famous  for  the  very  events  and  people  that  are  dearest  to  us  in  English  history. 
.  .  .  .  Climate  excepted  we  all  like  London,  but  the  climate  is  awful,  and  I 
for  one  can  do  nothing  without  constant  open  air  exercise " 

Portrait,  process-cut  from  a  photograph  by  W.  &  D.  Downey, 
London. 


Smith,  Gerrit,  American  philanthropist,  born  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  6  March, 
1797,  died  in  New  York,  28  December,  1874. 

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Letter,  dated  Peterboro,  Oct.  25,  1863,  to  Theodore  Tilton, 
approving  a  speech  of  Mr.  Tilton's  on  the  negro,  saying  : 

"I  am  very  glad  to  get  your  letter  and  the  second  edition  of  your  speech  on 
the  Negro.  I  read  it  when  it  first  appeared,  and  liked  it  much.  I  have  read  it 
again  today,  and  I  like  it  more.  Nothing  in  it  pleases  so  much  as  the  Irish- 
man's and  the  Negro's  side-by-side  ride  toward  the  Millenium." 


Smith,  Horatio,  better  known  as  Horace  Smith,  English  poet,  born  in 
London,  in  1779,  died  at  Tunbridge  Wells,  12  July,  1849. 

Signed  autograph  copy,  dated  Brighton,  24th  August,  1828,  of 
the  last  four  lines  of  "The  poet  and  the  alchemist."  The  poem 
is  included  in  Rejected  addresses  and  other  poems,  page  172  [821.2 
S651— 1] . 


Smith,  The  Rev.  Samuel  Francis,  American  clergyman,  born  in  Boston, 
21  October,  1808,  died  in  Boston,  16  November,  1895. 

Manuscript  copy  of  "America,"   written  in   1832,  copied  Dec. 
11,  1885,  at  Newton  Centre,  Mass. 

Portrait,  wood-engraving. 


Southey,  Caroline  Anne  Bowles,  English  poet,  second  wife  of  Robert 
Southey,  born  at  Lymington,  Hampshire,  7  October,  1786,  died 
at  the  same  place,  20  July,  1854. 

Manuscript   of  "  Patience   and    toasted    cheese,"    a    poem   of 
twenty-four  six-line  stanzas. 


Southey,  Robert,  English  poet  and  historian,  born  at  Bristol,  12  Aug- 
ust, 1774,  died  at  Keswick,  21  March,  1843. 

Manuscript  of  chapter  173  of  The  Doctor.     Southey  published 
Ty/^' Z)^r/'w  anonymously,  the  first  two  volumes  in  January,  1834, 

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volume  3  in  1835,  volumes  4  and  5  in  1837,  and  volumes  6  and  7 
in  1847,  edited  by  John  Wood  Warter,  his  son-in-law.  The  book 
made  a  great  stir  in  literary  circles  and  was  extensively  reviewed 
with  various  guesses  at  the  authorship.  The  curious  may  trace 
contemporary  opinion  by  examining  Fraser's  Magazine  for  Decem- 
ber, 1837,  January  and  March,  1838,  volume  16,  page  657,  volume 
17,  page  106,  310  ;  Blackwood' s  Magazine  for  August  and  Octo- 
ber, 1835,  volume  38,  page  269,  547 ;  Quarterly  Review  for 
March,  1834,  volume  51,  page  68  ;  Knickerbocker  Magazine  for 
November,  1836,  volume  8,  page  605.  The  book  is  a  most 
curious  medley  and  the  longer  one  examines  it  the  more  just  seems 
the  comment  of  the  Quarterly  Revieio  that  "  The  Doctor  is  the 
work  of  a  man  who  stands  more  in  need  of  physic  than  of  criti- 
cism "  :  and  the  more  obvious  it  appears  that  it  gives  many  indi- 
cations of  the  decay  of  Southey's  clear  and  brilliant  mind  which 
was  first  observed  by  his  friends  in  1839,  and  which  ended  in  death 
four  years  later. 


Sparks,  The  Rev.  Jared,  American  historian,  born  at  Willington, 
Conn.,  10  May,  1789,  died  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  14  March, 
1866. 

Letter,  dated  Cambridge,  April  10,  1854,  to  Norman  C.  Perkins. 

The  letter  simply  says  that  he  cannot  give  to  Mr.  Perkins  an 
autograph  of  Franklin  as  collectors  have  exhausted  his  stock. 

Portrait,  engraved   by   S.    A,    Schoff  from    the  painting  by  T. 
Sully. 


Spinner,  Francis  Elias,  American  financier,  treasurer  of  the  United 
States  from  16  March,  1861,  to  30  June,  1875,  born  at  German 
Flats  (now  Mohawk),  N.  Y.,  21  January,  1802,  died  at  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.,  31  January,  1890. 

Signature  on  United  States  treasury  warrant  for  twenty-four  cents, 
issued  12  June,  1873,  to  F.  C.  Harris. 

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Spofford,    Harriet    Elizabeth    Prescott,    Mrs.    Richard    S.    Spofford, 
American  author,  born  in  Calais,  Maine,  3  April,  1835. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  A  girl  and  a  jewel,"  a  story  first  pub- 
lished in  the  Wide  Awake  for  December,  1885,  to  May,  1886, 
volume  22,  afterward  reprinted  as  a  separate  book  in  1891  under 
the  title  A  Lost  Jewel  [JS762 — 1]. 

Autograph  copy  of  two  stanzas  from  her  poem  ' '  My  own  song, ' ' 
included  in  her  Poems,  1882  [821.1  S7625.p]. 

Autograph  copy  of  "  Measure  for  measure,"  two  four-line  stanzas 
published  in  her  Poems,  1882  [821.1  S7625.p]. 


Stael-Holstein,  Anne  Louise  Germaine  Necker,  Baronne  de,  French 
author,  born  at  Paris,  22  April,  1766,  died  in  the  same  city,  14 
July,  1817. 

Letter,  without  place,  date  or  address,  written  from  Switzerland 
and  probably  addressed  to  Lucien  Bonaparte,  Prince  of  Canino. 


Stanton,  Elizabeth  Cady,  Mrs.  Henry  B.  Stanton,  American  reformer, 
born  at  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  12  November,  1815. 

Letter,  dated  Louisville,  Kansas,  Sept.  15th,  [1867],  to  Theodore 
Tilton.  The  letter  was  written  during  the  campaign  of  four  weeks 
which  Mrs.  Stanton,  Miss  Anthony  and  others  made  in  behalf  of 
woman  suffrage  in  Kansas  in  the  autumn  of  1867. 

Portraits:  1,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall;  2,  process-cut  from  a 
photograph  by  Rockwood,  1895. 


Stirling,  James  Hutchison,  Scotch  philosopher,  born  in  Glasgow,  22 
June,  1820. 

Manuscript  of  "  Criticism  of  Kant's  Main  Principles,"  an  article 
published  in  the  Journal  of  Speculative  Philosophy  for  July  and 
October,  1880,  volume  14,  page  257,  353. 

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Stockton,  Francis  Richard,  American  humorist,  born  in  Philadelphia, 
5  April,  1884. 

Letter,  dated  Philadelphia,  30  December,  1885,  to  Mr.  Gluck, 
expressing  Mr.  Stockton's  regret  that  he  is  unable  to  give  to  the 
library  one  of  his  manuscripts,  as  for  many  years  all  his  work  has 
been  dictated  to  an  amanuensis. 


Stoddard,  Charles  Warren,  American  author,  born  in  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
7  August,  1843. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  Premonition,"  a  poem  first  published  in 
the  Century  for  March,  1886,  volume  9,  page  729. 


Stoddard,  Richard  Henry,  American  poet  and  journalist,  literary 
reviewer  of  the  New  York  World  from  1860  to  1870,  after  1880 
for  many  years  literary  editor  of  the  New  York  Mail  and  Express, 
born  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  2  July,  1825. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "The  Brahman's  son,"  a  poem  first  pub- 
lished in  Harper' s  Magazine  for  October,  1886,  volume  73,  page 
738,  afterward  included  in  his  The  Lion' s  Cub,  ivith  other  verse, 
page  132  [821.1  S8688.1]. 


Stoddard,  William  Osborn,  American  author,  private  secretary  to 
President  Lincoln  from  1861  to  1864,  born  in  Homer,  N.  Y.,  24 
September,  1835. 

Signed  manuscript  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  the  true  story  of  a  great 
life,  1884  [923.1  L.63.st]. 


Stone,  Lucy,  Mrs.  Henry  B.   Blackwell,  American  reformer  and  jour- 
nalist, editor  of  the  Boston  Woman' s  Journal  from  1870  until  her 

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death,  born  at  West  Brookfield,  Mass.,  13  August,   1818,  died  at 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  18  October,  1893. 

Personal  letter,  dated  Montclair,  31  December,  1862,  to  Theo- 
dore Tilton,  of  no  interest  except  as  an  autograph. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.    C.   Buttre   from  a   photograph    by  J. 
Notman. 


Story,  William  Wetmore,  American  sculptor  and  poet,  son  of  Judge 
Joseph  Story,  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  12  February,  1819,  died  in 
Rome,  7  October,  1895. 

Signed  manuscript,  dated  Palazzo  Barberini,  Rome,  June,  1885, 
of  the  preface  to  the  collection  of  his  Poems,  1886  [821.1 
S8888— 1]. 


Stowe,  Harriet  Elizabeth  Beecher,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman 
Beecher,  American  author,  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  14  June, 
1812,  died  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  1  July,  1896. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "A  day  at  Tivoli." 

Two  letters,  the  first  dated  Andover,  March  12,  [1861],  the  sec- 
ond written  later  in  the  same  year,  both  to  Theodore  Tilton  and 
both  concerned  with  the  publication  of  her  story  The  Pearl  of 
On' s  Island  [S892 — 8]  in  the  Independent.  The  later  part  of  the 
story  was  delayed  and  the  letters  detail  the  causes  and  plan  arrange- 
ments for  the  publication  of  the  second  part. 

Portraits:  1,  engraved  by  H.  W.  Smith  from  the  portrait  by 
G.  Richmond  ;  2,  engraved  by  R.  Young  in  1853  from  an  original 
portrait  in  the  possession  of  Sampson  Low  &  Co.,  London;  3, 
engraved  from  the  original  painting  by  Chappel ;  4,  a  photograph  ; 
5,  a  wood -cut  from  a  photograph. 


Strickland,  Miss  Agnes,  English  historian,  born  in  London,  19  August, 
1796,  died  at  Southwold,  13  July,  1874. 

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Manuscript  of  '*  Rufus  Impey  and  the  Sporting  Party,"  a  child's 
moral  tale. 


Sumner,   Charles,  American    statesman,  born   in  Boston,    6   January, 
1811,  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  11  March,  1874. 

Letter,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  20th  April,  1867,  to  Theodore 
Tilton.  This  is  the  original  manuscript  of  the  letter,  alluded  to  in 
the  tenth  of  the  succeeding  series,  written  at  Mr.  Tilton's  request 
and  published  in  the  Independent ;  afterward  republished,  under  the 
title  "Equal  Suffrage  at  once  by  an  act  of  Congress  rather  than 
constitutional  amendment,"  in  Sumner's  Works,  volume  11,  page 
356  [329.1  126]. 

A  series  of  twelve  letters,  all  but  one  unpublished  and  per- 
sonal, on  public  affairs,  the  first  dated  22  June,  1860,  the  last 
25  March,  1871,  all  to  Theodore  Tilton  as  editor  of  the  New  York 
Independent. 

First,  dated  22  June,  1860,  from  the  Senate  Chamber,  Washing- 
ton, expresses  to  the  Independent  Mr.  Sumner's  thanks  for  its  appre- 
ciation of  his  speech  in  the  Senate,  4  June,  1860,  on  the  bill  for 
the  admission  of  Kansas  as  a  free  state.  The  speech  referred  to 
was  published  with  the  title  "  The  barbarism  of  slavery,"  in  Sum- 
ner's Works,  volume  5,  page  1  [329.1  120].  In  the  course  of 
the  letter  Mr.  Sumner  speaks  of  Burke's  two  speeches,  "On  con- 
ciliation with  America  "  and  "On  economical  reform,"  published 
in  his  Works,  volumes  1,  2  [820.2  B959],  as  "the  two  greatest 
speeches  in  the  English  language." 

Second,  dated  Boston,  21  July,  1860,  replies  to  a  criticism  in  the 
Independent  of  Sumner's  speech  before  the  Young  Men's  Repub- 
lican Union,  at  Cooper  Institute,  New  York,  11  June,  1860,  pub- 
lished with  the  title,  "The  Republican  party,  its  origin,  necessity 
and  permanence,"  in  Sumner's  Works,  volume  5,  page  191 
[329.1   120]. 

Third,  dated  Boston,  29  October,  1865,  was  iniblished  in  the 
I?idependent  a.nd  republished  with  the  title  "  Equal  rights  versus  the 

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presidential  policy  in  reconstruction,"  in  Sumner's  Works,  volume 
9,  page  500  [329.1  124]. 

Fourth,  dated  Boston,  2  November,  1865,  details  the  safeguards 
and  guarantees  necessary  in  the  plans  for  reconstruction,  and  urges 
that  they  be  demanded. 

Fifth,  dated  Washington,  D.  C,  3  December,  1865,  describes 
an  interview  with  President  Johnson  during  the  evening  of  2 
December,  1865,  and  comments  upon  the  president's  position  as  to 
reconstruction. 

Sixth,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  12  April,  1866,  objects  to  the 
phrases  **  rhetorical  "  and  "  elaborating  sentences  before  delivery," 
as  applied  by  the  Independent  to  Mr.  Sumner's  speech-making 
methods. 

Seventh,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  6th  June,  1866,  gives  the  argu- 
ment for  the  validity  and  constitutionality  of  the  Political  Rights 
bill. 

Eighth,  dated  Washington,  D.  C,  23  December,  1866,  was 
written  directly  after  the  postponement,  because  of  the  constitu- 
tional limitation  of  the  right  of  suffrage  to  "white"  persons,  of  the 
bill  for  the  admission  of  Nebraska  as  a  state. 

Ninth,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  18  April,  1867,  gives  the  argu- 
ment against  a  constitutional  amendment  as  the  means  of  establish- 
ing equal  suffrage  and  in  favor  of  the  attainment  of  the  same  end 
by  act  of  Congress. 

Tenth,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  20  April,  1867,  is  a  private  letter 
accompanying  a  letter  written  for  publication  in  the  Independent  on 
the  same  subject  as  the  Ninth  letter.  The  public  letter  is  the  one 
referred  to  in  the  first  entry  under  Sumner. 

Eleventh,  dated  Washington,  9  May,  1869,  is  as  follows : 

"The  question  of  Cuba  is  vast,  containing  not  merely  the  fate  of  that  island 
but  the  question  of  war  with  Spain  and  also  our  question  with  England.  I  hesi- 
tate how  to  treat  it :  not  that  I  have  doubts,  but  I  am  not  sure  that  it  is  advisable 
for  me  to  enter  upon  it. 

Never  before  was  statesmanship  more  needed  to  guide  our  country.  May  God 
send  us  a  good  deliverance  !  " 

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Tiuelfth,  dated  Senate  Chamber,  25  March,  1871,  expresses  Mr. 
Sumner's  thanks  to  the  Independent  for  its  treatment  of  him  and 
explains  his  feeling  with  regard  to  his  removal,  on  account  of  his 
personal  relations  with  the  President  and  the  Secretary  of  State, 
from  the  chairmanship  of  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Relations. 


Taney,  Roger  Brooke,  American  jurist,  born  in  Calvert  Co.,  Md.,  17 
March,  1777,  died  in  Washington,  12  October,  1864. 

Signature  as  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  dated  28  April,  1834,  to 
the  commission  of  Samuel  Swartwout  as  Collector  of  customs  of  the 
district  of  New  York. 


Taylor,  Bayard,  American  author,   born    in  Kennett   Square,  Chester 
Co.,  Pa.,  11  January,  1825,  died  in  Berlin,  19  December,  1878. 

Manuscript  of  the  Notes  to  the  second  part  of  Faust,  published 
by  James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  25  March,  1871  [832  35]. 

The  manuscript  is  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  pages,  letter-size, 
and  is  very  clear  and  beautiful. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  H.  B.  Hall  &  Sons  from  a  photograph. 


Taylor,  The  Right  Rev.  Jeremy,  English  bishop  and  author,  born  at 
Cambridge,  1613,  died  at  Lisburn,  August,  1667. 

Letter,  dated  Hilsborough,  November  11,  1661,  "To  the  most 
Reverend  Father  in  God  John  [Bramhall]  Lord  ArchBp.  of  Ard- 
magh  primate  of  all  Ireland  and  Metropolitan  :  his  Grace  at  his 
house  in  Dublin  or  Droghedah." 

Taylor  was  at  this  time  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor  and  the 
letter  is  mainly  concerned  with  ecclesiastical  forfeitures.  The  fol- 
lowing passage  is  on  the  new  sect,  the  Society  of  Friends,  whose 

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mild  doctrines  seem  to  have  alarmed  ecclesiastical  circles  in  Great 
Britain  much  as  they  did  Puritan  authorities  in  New  England  : 

"My  Lord  I  againe  renew  my  suit  about  the  Quakers  that  some  secular  course 
may  be  taken  to  scatter  their  meetings ;  fr,  fr  anything  else  they  are  inconsid- 
erable ;  save  only  that  they  abuse  many  weake,  phantastic  and  hypochondriacal 
people  ;  and  under  a  cover  of  simplicity  teach  the  people  principles  of  disobedi- 
ence to  all  Governement.  I  know  your  Grace  is  a  better  player  at  Tennis  than  I 
am,  but  if  I  strike  first  and  turne  the  Quakers  over  ye  Ban  into  Ardmagh,  they 
will  as  hardly  remoove  as  a  Spaniard  from  his  garrison." 

Portrait,  steel-engraving,  anonymous. 


Tennyson,  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson,  English  poet,  born  at  Somersby, 
6  August,  1809,  died  at  Aldworth,  6  October,  1892. 

Letter,  dated  Farringford,  4  April,  1867,  to  James  R.  Osgood, 
Tavistock  Hotel,  Covent  Garden,  W.  C. 

Note  to  Martin  Farquhar  Tupper  at  Albury,  containing  Tenny- 
son's autograph  for  Brantz  Mayer,  of  Baltimore,  endorsed  to  this 
effect  by  Mr.  Tupper,  10  February,  1869. 

Proof-sheets,  with  author's  corrections  and  additions,  of  A 
Selection  from  the  Works  of  Afred  Tennyson,  published  in  Moxon's 
Series  of  Miniature  Poets.     London.     1865. 

In  Alfred  Tennyson,  a  Memoir,  by  his  son,  volume  2,  page  19 
[928.2  T,25],  in  an  extract  from  Mrs.  Tennyson's  journal,  is  given 
the  text  of  a  preface  said  to  have  been  written  for  this  volume, 
which  was  issued  first  in  three-penny  numbers.  This  preface  does 
not,  however,  appear  in  the  volume.  Mrs.  Tennyson  also  notes 
that  six  poems,  "The  captain;  On  a  mourner;  Home  they 
brought  him  slain  with  spears;  and  Three  sonnets  to  a  coquette," 
are  new. 

Portrait,  engraved,  nameless. 


Thaxter,  Celia  Laighton,  Mrs.  Levi  Lincoln  Thaxter,  born  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  29  June,  1836,  died  on  the  island  of  Appledore, 
Isles  of  Shoals,  26  August,  1894. 

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Letter  dated  Boston,  24  March,  1886,  to  Mr.  Gluck,  transmitting 
autograph  copies  of  two  poems.  The  first,  called  "A  tryst,"  was 
published  in  her  collection  of  Poems,  1881  [821.1  T369.p],  and 
was  read  over  and  over  again  by  Lieut.  Greely  to  his  men  during 
their  Arctic  imprisonment;  the  second,  called  "Questions"  was 
published  in  her  collection  The  Cruise  of  the  Mystery,  and  other 
poems  [821.1  T369.c]. 


Thomas,  Miss  Edith  Matilda,  American  poet,  born  in  Chatham,  Ohio, 
12  August,  1854. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Flake  white,"  an  essay  on  snow,  pub- 
lished in  the  Athiiitic  Monthly  for  March,  1885,  volume  55,  page 
344,  and  reprinted  in  her  volume  of  essays  The  Round  Year  [824. 1 
T455.p]. 


Thompson,  Maurice,  American  author,  born  at  Fairfield,  Ind.,  9  Sep- 
tember, 1844. 

Manuscript  of  "  A  song  of  the  mockingbird,  dedicated  to  an 
English  sky-lark,"  published  m\a^  Poems,  1892  [821.1  T474.p], 
as  "To  an  English  skylark." 


Thoreau,  Henry  David,  American  author,  born  at  Concord,  Mass.,  12 
July,  1817,  died  in  the  same  place,  6  May,  1862. 

Autograph    of  extracts   from    the  writings  of  the   poet  Francis 
Quarles. 


Thorpe,  Rose  Hartwick,  Mrs.  Edmund  C.  Thorpe,  American  poet,  born 
at  Mishawaka,  Ind.,  18  July,  1850. 

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Autograph  copy,  dated  Pacific  Beach,  California,  of  the  follow- 
ing poem  : 

"THE  CHRISTMAS  LOVE. 

Glimmer  of  gold  in  the  morning  mist ; 
Haze  of  amber  and  amethyst ; 
Spices  blown  o'er  a  shining  strand  ; 
Christmas  day  in  the  south-west  land. 

Garlands  of  flowers,  or  drifts  of  snow, 
The  whole  world  shares  in  the  Christmas  glow 
Of  that  love  which  prompts  the  heart  to  make 
Gifts  of  love  for  the  dear  Christ's  sake." 


Ticknor,  George,   American  author,  born  in  Boston,  1   August,  1791, 
died  in  the  same  city,  26  January,  1871. 

Letter,  dated  London,  June  4,  1838,  to  Robert  Southey,  intro- 
ducing Charles  Sumner.  The  letter  was  written  just  at  the  close  of 
Mr.  Ticknor's  second  visit  in  Europe,  which  was  made  immediately 
after  the  close  of  his  fifteen  years  of  most  distinguished  service  as 
professor  of  modern  languages  at  Harvard.  He  had  begun  the  col- 
lection of  his  library  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  literature  during 
his  first  visit  in  1819,  and  now,  in  preparation  for  writing  his 
famous  History  of  Spanish  Literature  [860  1] ,  had  increased  it. 
The  Ticknor  Library  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  is  the  beautiful 
memorial  not  only  of  Mr.  Ticknor's  learning,  but  also  of  his  interest 
in  and  love  for  the  great  institution  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
founders. 

Such  is  the  man  who  introduces  Charles  Sumner,  then  but 
twenty-seven  and  in  the  midst  of  the  enjoyment  of  his  first  Euro- 
pean trip,  to  the  great  poet  Southey.  It  is  disappointing  to  learn 
from  Sumner's  interesting  letters  to  George  S.  Hillard,  published  in 
Pierce's  Memoir  and  Letters  of  Charles  Sumner,  volume  1,  page 
355-359  [923.1  Su.6.p],  that  he  missed  Southey,  who  was  on  the 
continent.  He  however  met  "a  young  and  lovely  daughter  of 
Southey's  "  at  Wordsworth's,  where  his  visit  was  one  of  "  unmingled 
pleasure." 

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The  letter  is  as  follows  : 

My  dear  Sir, 

Before  I  leave  London  let  me  introduce  to  you,  my  friend  Mr.  Charles  Sumner 
of  Boston,  who  is  likely  soon  to  visit  your  part  of  England.  He  is  a  young  man  of 
a  very  lofty  moral  purity  of  character  and  of  attainments  in  the  science  of  the  Law, 
which,  for  his  age,  are  extraordinary  and  accounted  so,  not  only  in  the  United 
States,  but  in  Europe,  where  his  reputation  had,  in  some  instances,  preceded  him. 
I  commend  him  to  you,  as  one  with  whom  you  will  be  pleased  to  talk,  for  it  is 
rare,  in  one  so  young,  to  find  a  mind  so  fair  and  so  wise. 

We  all  remember  your  kindness  to  us  at  Keswick  and  hope  we  may  be  kindly 
remembered  by  you,  when  we  shall  be  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  to  which 
we  are  hastening.  ^rs.  very  faithfully  ^^0.  TICKNOR. 

Portraits:  1,  of  Ticknor,  steel-engraving  by  H.  W.  Smith  from 
a  photograph  by  Black  in  1867  ;  2,  of  Southey,  steel-engraving  by 
S.  A.  Schoff;  3,  of  Sumner,  steel-engraving  by  Augustus  Robin 
from  a  photograph. 


Tilton,  Theodore,  American  journalist,  born  in  New  York,  2  October, 
1835,  on  the  staff  of  the  New  York  Independent  from  1856  to  1863, 
its  editor-in-chief  from  1863  to  1872. 

Signed  autograph  copy  of  "The  cloud  of  witnesses,"  a  poem 
published  in  his  volume  The  Sexton' s  Tale,  and  other  poems,  page 
65  [821.1  T5815.S]. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  from  a  photograph. 


Trollope,  Anthony,  English  novelist,  born  in  London,  in  1815,  died 
in  the  same  city,  6  December,  1882. 

Letter,  dated  39  Montagu  Square,  London,  2  December,  1878. 

The  letter  is  written  to  the  publisher  of  one  of  his  latest  stories 
and  is  an  interesting  instance  of  the  care  which  the  novelist  used 
to  make  the  details  of  his  work  correct. 

My  dear  Mr.  Ireland  : 

I  shall  have  finished  my  story  in  about  a  week.  I  find  that  there  arise  in  it 
various  legal  points, —  not  legal  questions  with  which  I  should  not  dabble, — but 

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matters  of  phraseology  and  form.  I  suppose  it  would  be  out  of  the  question  for 
you  to  have  it  printed  at  once  in  slips  so  as  to  enable  me  to  get  a  barrister  to  read 
it?  I  could  not  ask  a  friend  to  do  this  in  Mss.  I  have  had  this  done  be- 
fore, but  I  can  understand  that  it  would  be  out  of  the  question  to  do  it  where 
the  types  are  so  constantly  required  as  in  a  newspaper  establishment.  It  is  how- 
ever as  well  to  ask  the  question. 

Yours  always 

faithfully 

ANTHONY  TROLLOPE. 


TrowbridgCy  John  Townsend,  American  author,  born  in  Ogden,  N.  Y. , 
18  September,  1827. 

Manuscript  of  the  poems  the  "  Rhyme  of  John  Paul  Jones  "  and 
"The  battle  of  the  Serapis  and  the  Poor  Richard." 

Manuscript  of  The  Kelp- Gatherers,  a  story  first  published  in  the 
St.  Nicholas  for  June  to  October,  1886,  volume  13,  pt.  2,  page 
584,  afterward  republished  in  book  form  [JT8634 — 13]. 

Portrait,  photograph  by  Warren. 


Tupper,  Martin    Farquhar,    English  poet,  born  in  London,   17    July, 
1810,  died  at  Albury  House,  near  Guildford,  29  November,  1889. 

Letter,  dated  April  2,  [1850],  to  W.  N.  L.,  /.  e.  William  Nan- 
son  Lettsom.  The  stupendous  work  alluded  to  in  the  letter  is 
probably  Lettsom' s  translation  of  the  Nibelungenlied,  which  was 
published  in  1850. 

Worthy  W.  N.  L.  : 

Here's  one  of  my  last,  thrown  to  you  by  way  of  excuse  for  a  how  dye-do. 
Know  also  that  I've  eased  my  conscience  of  a  veriiiii  dictum  anent  your  stu- 
pendous work  and  that  I've  sent  off  the  vengeful  critique  in  question  to  a  friendly 
editor.  If  and  when  it  appears  in  print  you  shall  have  it  forthwith.  I  heartily 
applaud  you  as  a  genuine  wonder  :  why,  there  are  hardly  half  a  dozen  Latin 
words  in  the  whole  10,000  lines  :  and  you  have  done  your  work  admirably. 
Suffer  this  buttering  :    but  I  wouldn't  say  it  if  I  didn't  think  it. 

Very  sincerely  yours 

MARTIN  F.  TUPPER. 
Portrait,  engraved  from  a  drawing. 

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Turner,  John   Mallord   William,   English  landscape  painter,  born   23 
April,  1775,  died  in  Chelsea,  19  December,  1851. 

Manuscript  note  to  a  fellow  artist,  of  no  interest  except  as  giving 
a  very  good  signature. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  W.  Hall. 


Voltaire,  Francois  Marie  Arouet  de,  French  philosopher  and  author, 
born  in  Paris,  24  November,  1694,  died  in  the  same  city,  30  May, 
1778. 

Signature  on  an  official  certificate  of  identification,  dated  3 
November,  1767,  given  in  the  town  of  Gex  in  which  the  Chateau 
of  Ferney  was  situated. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  J.  Romney  from  a  drawing  by  G.  M. 
Brighty,  from  the  painting  by  La  Tour,  published  in  1817  by 
C.  G.  Dyer. 


Wallace,  Gen.  Lew.,  American  lawyer,  soldier  and  author.  United 
States  minister  to  Turkey  from  1881  to  1885,  born  at  Brookville, 
Ind.,  10  April,  1827. 

Letter,  dated  Crawfordsville,  Ind.,  14  December,  1885,  to  Mr. 
Gluck,  a  specimen  of  Gen.  Wallace's  handwriting,  otherwise  of  no 
interest. 

Portrait,  half-tone  engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Ward,    Elizabeth    Stuart    Phelps,     Mrs.     Herbert    Dickinson    Ward, 
American  author,  born  in  Boston,  31  August,  1844. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "  The  tenement-house  fire,"  a  poem  first 
published,  with  illustrations,  in  the  Wide  Awake  for  March,  1886, 
volume  22,  page  250. 

Portrait,  half-tone  engraving  from  a  photograph. 

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Warner,  Charles  Dudley,  American  author,  born  in  Plainfield,  Mass., 
12  September,  1829. 

Letter,  dated  Hartford,  Conn.,  10  January,  1886,  to  Mr.  Gluck, 
accompanying  the  signed  manuscript  of  "Society  in  the  new 
South"  an  essay  first  published  in  the  New  Princeton  Review  for 
January,  1886,  volume  1,  page  1,  afterward  reprinted  in  his  Studies 
in  the  South  a?id  West,  page  18  [917.4  65]. 


Warner,  Miss  Susan,  American  author,  known  also  by  her  pen-name 
"Elizabeth  Wetherell,"  born  in  New  York  City,  11  July,  1819, 
died  at  Highland  Falls,  N.  Y.,  17  March,  1885. 

Letter,  dated  The  Island,  Sept.  7,  1853,  probably  to  Mr.  Samuel 
Carter,  the  publisher  of  her  book  The  laiv  and  the  Testimony,  report- 
ing a  missing  signature  in  her  copy  of  this  book,  which  was  pub- 
lished during  1853  [220.0  30]. 


Washington,  George,  first  president  of  the  United  States,  born  at 
Pope's  Creek,  Va.,  22  February,  1732,  died  at  Mount  Vernon,  14 
December,  1799. 

Letter,  dated  Head  Qrs.,  New  York,  Sept.  12,  1776,  to  the 
President  of  Congress.  The  date,  September  12,  is  the  day  of 
that  consultation  of  Washington  with  his  generals  which  decided 
the  evacuation  of  New  York.  The  anxiety  of  the  great  general  is 
evident  throughout  the  letter.  The  manuscript  is  from  Sir  William 
Hamilton's  collection  and  is  apparently  unpublished.  It  is  there- 
fore reprinted  with  the  spelling,  punctuation  and  capitalization  of 
the  original : 

Sir 

I  yesterday  received  the  favor  of  your  letter  of  the  9th  with  Its  several  Inclo- 
sures  and  am  extremely  happy  that  your  Hon'bl  Body  had  anticipated  my  recom- 
mendation by  resolving  on  an  Augmentation  of  six  hundred  men  to  the  Garrisons 
in  the  Highlands  —  the  importance  of  those  posts  demands  the  utmost  attention, 
and  every  exertion  to  maintain  them. 

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The  vessels  for  the  removal  of  the  sick  are  not  yet  arrived.  Their  present  situa- 
tion gives  me  great  anxiety.  As  the  wind  is  now  favourable  I  would  fain  hope 
that  a  sufficient  number  will  come  down  to  day  to  take  in  the  whole.  If  they  do 
not  my  distress  will  be  much  increased. 

Gen'l  Clinton  in  a  letter  of  the  8th  transmitted  me  a  list  of  artillery  and  ord- 
nance stores  wanted  at  Forts  Montgomery  and  Constitution,  which  Included  the 
several  articles  you  have  determined  to  procure,  Except  those  mentioned  below. — 
I  directed  that  they  should  be  sent  up,  but  as  the  situation  of  our  Affairs  at  this 
Time  may  not  perhaps  admit  of  It  I  think  It  will  be  prudent  for  Mr.  Schenk  whom 
you  have  appointed  an  agent  in  this  Instance  to  get  all  he  can  —  Should  he  be 
able  to  obtain  the  supply  you  have  voted  necessary  —  and  Gen'l  Clinton's  demand 
be  complied  with  also,  no  damage  will  be  done — our  stores  will  not  be  too  large. 
I  have  the  Honor  to  be 

with  great  respect 
Sir 
Your  Most  Obed.  Sevt. 

G°  WASHINCiTON 
Intrenching  Tools 
Iron  Carriages 
Cannon  Harness 
Armourer  with  his  Tools. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  H.  W.  Smith  from  G.  Stuart's 
Athenaeum  painting. 


Watterson,  Henry,  American  journalist,  born  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
16  February,  1840,  editor  of  the  Louisville  Courier-Journal  since 
1868. 

Letter,  dated  Louisville,  Nov.  16th,  [1873],  to  Theodore  Til- 
ton,  interesting  only  as  a  specimen  of  Mr.  Watterson's  hand- 
writing. 


Watts,  The  Rev.  Isaac,  English  clergyman  and  poet,  born  at  South- 
ampton, 17  July,  1674,  died  at  Theobald's,  Newington,  25 
November,  1748. 

Manuscript  of  ''Diuine    Miscellanies,   or  A  mixture  of  matter, 
being  the  exercise  of  solitary  thoughts  on  occasionall  meditations, 

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various  observations  and  serious  contemplations  digested  into  poems 
and  epigrams." 

Portrait,  engraving,  nameless. 


Webster,  Daniel,  American  statesman,  born  in  Salisbury,  now  Frank- 
lin, N.  H.,  18  January,  1782,  died  in  Marshfield,  Mass.,  24  Octo- 
ber, 1852. 

Letter,  dated  Brunswick  Hotel,  Hanover  Square,  July  27,  1839, 
to  John  H.  Tredgold,  Esq.,  making  an  appointment  to  meet  Mr. 
Tredgold  and  his  friends  at  the  end  of  August, 


Whipple,  Edwin  Percy,  American  author,  born  in  Gloucester,  Mass., 
8  March,  1819,  died  in  Boston,  16  June,  1886. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Domestic  service,"  an  article  first  pub- 
lished in  the  Forum  for  March,  1886,  volume  1,  page  25,  after- 
wards included  in  Outlooks  on  Society,  Literature  and  Politics,  page 
99  [824.1  W573.0]. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  by  J.  A.  J.  Wilcox  from  a  photograph. 


White,  Horace,  American  journalist,  born  at  Colebrook,  N.  H.,  10' 
August,  1834,  joint  editor,  with  E.  L.  Godkin,  of  the  New  York 
Evening  Post  since  1883. 

Private  letter,  dated  Chicago,  October  28th,  1872,  to  Theodore 
Tilton,  making  an  inquiry  on  behalf  of  the  Liberal  Republicans 
concerning  the  policy  of  the  Neiv  York  Tribune  in  case  of  Grant's 
election. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Samuel  Sartain. 


White,  Richard  Grant,  American  author  and  Shakespearean  scholar, 
born  in  New  York  City,  22  May,  1821,  died  in  the  same  city,  8 
April,  1885. 

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Manuscript  of  "  Stage  Rosalinds,"  an  article  first  published  in 
the  Atlantic  Moiithly,  for  February,  1883,  volume  51,  page  248, 
afterward  republished  in  his  volume  Studies  in  Shakespeare,  1886 
[822.3  321]. 

Portrait,  wood-engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Whitman,  Walt,  American  poet,  born  in  West  Hills,  Long  Island,  31 
May,  1819,  died  in  Camden,  N.  J.,  23  March,  1892. 

Manuscript  of  the  essay  "  Robert  Burns  as  poet  and  person." 

A  peculiar  manuscript  written  on  scraps  of  paper  of  all  sorts  and 
kinds  and  embodying  in  it  printed  extracts  from  an  earlier  article. 
The  essay  in  its  present  form  was  published  in  his  collection 
November  Boughs  [824.1   W615.n]. 

Portrait,  engraving  by  S.  A.  Schofif. 


Whitney,  Adeline  Button   Train,   Mrs.    Seth   D.   Whitney,    American 
author,  born  in  Boston,  15  September,  1824. 

Signed,  autograph  copy  of  "A  violet,"  a  poem  of  three  four- 
line  stanzas,  published  in  her  volume  Pansies  [821.1  W617.p]. 

Portrait,  wood-cut  by  A.  L.  L.  from  a  photograph. 


Whittier,  John  Greenleaf,  American  poet,  born  in  East  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  17  December,  1807,  died  at  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H.,  7  Sep- 
tember, 1892. 

Manuscript  of  "The  King's  missive,  1661,"  a  poem  originally 
written  for  the  Memorial  History  of  Boston,  volume  1,  page  xxv 
[972  B— 8]. 

The  ballad  celebrates  the  release  by  Governor  Endicott  of  the 
Quakers  confined  in  Boston  jail.  "The  King's  missive"  was 
brought   to   Governor   Endicott   by    Samuel   Shattuck,  a  banished 

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Quaker.     The  poem  gives  its  title  to  a  volume  of  Whittier's  poems 
The  Kiw-'  s  Missive,  and  other  poems,  1881  [821.1  W625.k]. 

Letter,  dated  Amesbury,  10th  9th  mouth,  1864,  to  Theodore 
Tilton,  writteu  just  after  the  death  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Hussey 
Whittier,  3  September,  1864. 

My  dear  fd  Tilton  : 

I  thank  thee  for  thy  kind  letter,  I  fully  believe  that  a  great  good  has  befallen 
my  dear  sister  —  whose  years  of  pain  and  trial  and  weariness  terminated  so  recently 
—  but  the  loss  is  heavy  to  me.  Always  in  delicate  health  there  was  a  constant 
solicitude  on  my  part  —  a  constant  watchfulness  over  her  —  and  for  this  perhaps  I 
loved  her  all  the  more.  I  pray  to  be  preserved  from  selfish  sorrow  and  repining. 
For  I  know  it  is  all  in  mercy  that  she  has  been  called  away  into  rest  and  peace. 
I  cannot  now  write  anything  worthy  of  her  memory.  But  I  would  be  glad  to  see 
a  brief  notice  of  her  departure  in  the  Independent.  She  has  written  but  few 
poems  but  these  show  that  she  had  real  poetic  feeling.  Such  pieces  as  her  "  Dr. 
Kane  in  Cuba"  and  "  I.ady  Franklin"  show  what  she  might  have  done  had  she 
cherished  any  ambition  for  literary  reputation.  She  loved  home,  quiet  and  all 
beautiful  things  —  enjoying  as  well  as  suffering  much  from  her  delicately  sensi- 
tive temperament.  No  one  ever  had  warmer  friends.  She  esteemed  any  one 
better  than  herself  and  while  full  of  charity  for  others  she  was  inexorable  in 
regard  to  what  she  looked  upon  as  her  own  short-comings.  Since  the  death  of 
our  mother  she  has  had  little  inclination  to  go  abroad  and  rarely  left  home  except 
on  some  errand  of  charity  or  kindness.  All  the  strength  of  her  last  days  was 
expended  in  efforts  to  relieve  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  and  the  poor  freed- 
men. 

Thanking  thee  for  thy  kindness  I  am  most  truly  thy  friend. 

JOHN  G.   WHITTIER 

I  am  glad  to  see  all  loyal  men  rallying  in  favor  of  Lincoln.  He  is  not  the  man 
of  my  choice  but  between  him  and  that  traitor  platform  who  could  hesitate  !  I 
wish  Fremont  were  in  a  better  position. 

I  enclose  two  or  three  little  poems  of  my  sister's.  There  is  a  beautiful  little 
thing  of  hers  in  the  Hymns  of  the  Ages  2d  series  page  53.  If  thee  does  not 
print  them  in  the  Independent  please  return  the  enclosed. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  Schoff  from  a  photograph. 


Willis,  Nathauiel  Parker,  American  poet,  born  at  Portland,   Me.,   20 
January,  1806,  died  at  Idlevvild,  20  January,  1867. 

Letter,  without  place  or  date,  to  James  T.  Fields,  conveying  the 
regrets  of  Mr.  Willis  at  not  being  able  to  accept  an  invitation  to 

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deliver  a  poem  in  Boston.  The  letter  is  quoted,  in  part,  in 
Nathaniel  Parker  Willis,  by  Henry  A.  Beers,  page  271  [928.1 
W677.b]. 

Portrait,  engraved  without  signature. 


Wilson,  Henry,  American  statesman,  senator  from  Massachusetts  for 
eighteen  years,  vice-president  of  the  United  States  from  March, 
1873,  until  his  death,  born  at  Farmington,  N.  H.,  16  February, 
1812,  died  in  Washington,  22  November,  1875. 

Letter,  dated  Natick,  September  8,  1866,  to  Theodore  Tilton. 

The  letter  is  a  complaint  of  injustice  on  Mr.  Tilton's  part  against 
Mr.  Wilson  in  charging  him  with  defeating  an  expression  by  the 
southern  convention  in  favor  of  suffrage  with  a  refutation  of  the 
charge. 

Portrait,  steel-engraving  from  a  photograph. 


Wilson,  Gen.  James  Grant,  American  soldier  and  author,  born  in  Edin- 
burgh, Scotland,  28  April,  1832. 

Manuscript  of  the  chapters  on  Fitz-Greene  Halleck  and  Nathaniel 
Parker  Willis  from  his  book  Bryant  and  his  Friends  [928.1 
B.84.W]. 


Winsor,  Justin,  American  librarian  and  author,  born  in  Boston,  2  Jan- 
uary, 1831,  died  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  22  October,  1897. 

Signed  manuscript  of  "Americana  in  libraries  and  bibliog- 
raphies," from  his  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  A?>ierica, 
volume  1,  page  i  -  xviii  [970  B — 15]. 

Letter,  dated  21  January,  1887,  to  Mr.  J.  N.  Larned  concerning 
the  manuscript  described  above. 

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Winter,   William,    American   journalist    and    dramatic    critic,   born    at 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  15  July,  1836. 

Original  manuscript  of  "  Lester  Wallack ;  his  ancestry,  training 
and  career,"   an  article  published  in  the  New  York  Tribune,  May, 
1886.     A  part  of  the  article  is  reprinted  in  Actors  and  Actresses  of 
the  Present  Time,  volume  5  [927  M.43v5]. 


Wood,  The  Rev.  John  George,  English  naturalist  and  author,  born  in 
London,  1827,  died  in  Coventry,  4  March,  1889, 

Original  manuscript  of  "  Dime  museums,  from  a  naturalist's  point 
of  view,"  an  article  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  {ox  June, 
1885,  volume  55,  page  759. 


Woolsey,  Miss  Sarah  Chauncey,  American  author  known  by  her  pen- 
name  "Susan  Coolidge,"  niece  of  Theodore  Dwight  Woolsey, 
born  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  about  1845. 

Letter  dated  Newport,  11  May,  1886,  to  James  Fraser  Gluck, 
accompanying  autograph  copies  of  seven  poems:  "The  Cradle 
tomb  in  Westminster  Abbey;  November;  Eighteen;  Savoir  c'est 
pardonner  ;  Till  the  day  dawn  ;  Ebb-tide  ;  Tokens,"  all  published 
in  her  volume  called  Verses  [821.1  C774.v]. 

Manuscript  of  "The  Marble  Queen,"  the  poem  which  describes 
Rausch's  recumbent  statue  at  Charlottenburg  of  Queen  Louise  of 
Prussia  and  the  influence  of  the  memory  of  the  much  loved  queen 
in  uniting  Germany. 


Woolsey,  Theodore  Dwight,  American  educator,  president  of  Yale 
college  from  1846  to  1871,  born  in  New  York  City,  31  October, 
1801,  died  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1  July,  1889. 

Manuscript  of  an  article  "On  the  imperfect  knowledge  of  the 
moral  statistics  of  the  United  States,"  read  Thursday,  8  September, 
1881,  before  the  general  meeting  of  the  American  Social  Science 

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Association,  at  Saratoga,  and  published  in  the  American  Journal  of 
Social  Science  for  November,  1881,  vohime  14,  page  129. 

Portrait,  engraved  by  A.  H.  Ritchie  from  a  daguerreotype  by 
Moulthrop. 

Wordsworth,  William,   English  poet,  born  at  Cockermouth,  Cumber- 
land, 17  April,  1770,  died  at  Rydal  Mount,  23  April,  1850. 

Autograph  copy  of  the  poem  ''If  this  great  world  of  joy  and 
pain."  The  poem  was  written  in  1833  and  first  published  in  1835. 
The  copy  is  dated  Rydal  Mount,  29  July,  1840,  and  was  made  for 
an  American,  the  Rev.  Charles  Edwards  Lester,  who  was  in  Eng- 
land at  this  time.  The  autograph  is  accompanied  by  a  letter,  dated 
Kendal,  July  29,  1840,  to  Mr.  Lester  from  Mary  Caroline  Braith- 
waite  from  which  such  parts  as  refer  to  Wordsworth  are  as  follows : 

Kendal  July  29,  1840 
Dear  Sir : 

You  are  indeed  honored  !  I  never  knew  Wordsworth  write  so  much  before. 
It  is  unusual  for  him,  as  his  eyesight  is  very  defective,  and  the  exertion  is  painful 
to  him.  No  doubt  you  will  justly  appreciate  the  favour.  I  rejoice  to  send  you  so 
gratifying  an  autograph  as  it  is  just  what  you  wished  but  which  I  did  not  dare  to 

hope  for. 

Dear  Robin  wishes  me  to  say  that  by  tonight's  mail,  he  will  forward  for  your 
acceptance,  two  views  of  the  Lakes  Rydall  and  Winandermere.  The  view  of  the 
latter  is  taken  from  Low  Wood,  the  Inn  where  flags  in  honor  of  the  Queen 
Dowager  were  waving. 

I  think  it  would  gratify  Wordsworth  if  you  were  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
the  Autograph  and  if  you  like  you  might  say  you  had  ventured  to  take  a  piece  of 
the  Stone  he  has  celebrated.     My  Conscience  rather  smites  me  for  being  accessory 


to  it. 


The  poem,  although  accessible  in  most  editions  of  Wordsworth's 

poems,  is  also  reproduced  : 

"  If  this  great  world  of  joy  and  pain 
Revolves  in  one  sure  track  ; 
If  freedom,  set,  will  rise  again. 
And  virtue,  flown,  come  back. 
Woe  to  the  purblind  crew  who  fdl 
The  heart  with  each  day's  care  ; 
Nor  gain,  from  past  or  future,  skill 
To  bear,  and  to  forbear. " 

Portrait,  engraved  by  F.  T.  Stuart. 

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Young,  John  Russell,  American  journalist,  United  States  minister  to 
China  from  1882  to  1885,  librarian  of  the  Congressional  Library 
from  30  June,  1897  to  his  death,  born  in  Dowington,  Pa.,  20 
November,  1841,  died  in  Washington,  17  January,  1899. 

Personal  letter,  dated  New  York,  2  July,  1874,  to  Theodore 
Tilton,  Mr.  Young  being  at  that  date  on  the  staff  of  the  New  York 
Herald. 


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LIST  OF  MANUSCRIPTS  AND  AUTOGRAPHS  IN  THE 
BUFFALO  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  NOT  BELONGING 
TO  THE  GLUCK  COLLECTION,  ARRANGED 
UNDER  THE  NAMES  OF  THE  PERSONS  WHO 
GAVE   THEM   TO   THE   LIBRARY. 


Adam,  Robert  B. 

Letters  from  Gen.  Charles  George  Gordon,  from  his  sister,  A. 
Gordon,  and  from  his  brother,  H.  W.  Gordon. 

Letters  from  Sir  Rowland  Hill,  and  from  his  nephew,  George 
Birkbeck  Hill,  all  the  gift  of  George  Birkbeck  Hill  to  Mr.  Adam 
for  the  library.  ^ 


Barry,  Gen.  William  V. 

Autograph  letters  addressed  to  Gen.  Barry,  presented  by  his 
daughters,  comprising  letters  from  Lord  Abinger,  Gen.  Adelbert 
Ames,  Mr.  Lars  Anderson,  Gen.  S.  C.  Armstrong,  Maj.-Gen.  N.  P. 
Banks,  Gen.  J.  G.  Barnard,  Gen.  W.  W.  Belknap,  Gov.  John  Lee 
Carroll,  Maj.-Gen.  George  A.  Custer,  Admiral  Chas.  H.  Davis, 
ex-Pres.  Millard  Fillmore,  Gov.  Hamilton  Fish,  Gen.  W.  B. 
Franklin,  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  Col.  E.  B.  Hamley,  Vice-Pres.  Han- 
nibal Hamlin,  Rear-Adm.  H.  K.  Hoff,  Gov.  John  T.  Hoffman, 
Mr.  James  Barron  Hope,  Capt.  de  Horsey,  Rt.  Rev.  John  Johns, 
Prince  de  Joinville,  Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee,  Lord  Lyons,  Maj.-Gen. 
George  B.  McClellan,  Gen.  Irwin  McDowell,  Gen.  George  G. 
Meade,  Gen.  Geo.  W.  Morell,  Gen.  Albert  J.  Myer,  Maj.-Gen. 
Napier,  H.  B.  M.  A.,  Lieut. -Col.   Edward  Neville,  Scots  Fusilier 

127 


MANUSCRIPTS  AND   AUTOGRAPHS   IN 

Guards,  Comte  de  Paris,  Maj.-Gen.  Robert  Patterson,  Col.  Peter 
A.  Porter,  Capt.  S.  Ringgold,  Admiral  C.  R.  P.  Rodgers,  Gen. 
T.  J.  Rodman,  Rear-Adm.  J.  R.  Sands,  Maj.-Gen.  J.  M.  Scho- 
field.  Senator  Carl  Schurz,  Gen.  John  Sedgwick,  Lieut. -Gen. 
Philip  Sheridan,  Hon.  John  Sherman,  Gen.  W.  T.  Sherman, 
Mrs.  W.  T.  Sherman,  Gen.  H.  W.  Slocum,  Hon.  Edwin  M.  Stan- 
ton, Admiral  S.  D.  Trenchard,  Gen.  Emory  Upton,  Maj.-Gen. 
W.  J.  Worth. 


Corning,  The  Rev.  J.  Leonard. 

Manuscript    of  a   sermon    by  the    Rev.   Henry  Ward    Beecher, 
preached  at  the  installation  of  Mr.  Corning  in  1863. 


Cothran,  George  W. 

Manuscript  oi  Assessors  and  Collectors  :  a  lull  and  complete  state- 
ment of  the  law  defining  their  powers,  duties  and  liabilities, 
and  the  remedies  against  them  ;  with  all  needful  forms.  Gift  of 
the  author. 


De  Vere,  Aubrey. 

Letters  to  Mr.  John  Charles  Earle. 


Fryer,  T.  T. 

Manuscript  of  part  of  an  Editor's  Introduction  by  David  Gray. 


Gibbons,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 

A  volume  containing  autographs,  letters,  documents,  etc.,  in  the 
handwriting  of  Sir  Christopher  Wren,  Sir  Francis  Chantrey,  Mme. 

128 


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D'Arblay,  the  Duke  of  Kent,  Mme.   Vestris,  James  McAdam,  the 
Princess  Elizabeth,  and  others. 


Harrison,  Gabriel. 

Letter  from  John  Howard  Payne  to  R.  W.  Elliston,  Esq. 


Howland,  Henry  R. 

Manuscript  by  John  James  Audubon  of   the  first  draft  of  the 
introduction  to  The  Birds  of  America. 


Johnston,  James  N. 

Manuscript  of  a  lecture  by  David  Gray,  on  Robert  Burns,  deliv- 
ered in  Buffalo,  25  January,  1865. 


Keene,  Miss  Mary  V. 

Letter  from  Miss  Charlotte  Cushman,  to  Miss  Keene. 


Meech,  Henry. 

Letter  from  Edwin  Booth,  to  Meech  Bros. 


Norton  Collection. 

Gathered  and  preserved  for  the  Young  Men's  Association  by 
Charles  D.  Norton  and  others.  Autograph  letters  of  John  Quincy 
Adams,  V.  G.  Audubon,  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  Thomas  H.  Ben- 
ton, Lewis  Cass,  Salmon  P.  Chase,  Myron  H.  Clark,  Henry  Clay, 
DeWitt  Clinton,  Thomas  Corwin,  George  William  Curtis,  John  A. 
Dix,   Ralph   Waldo  Emerson,   Edward  Everett,   Millard  Fillmore, 

129 


MANUSCRIPTS  AND   AUTOGRAPHS  IN 

Hamilton  Fish,  Josiah  Gilbert  Holland,  Philip  Livingston,  Benson 
J.  Lossing,  Robert  Morris,  Oliver  Hazard  Perry,  William  H. 
Seward,  Horatio  Seymour,  Charles  Sumner,  Henry  David  Thoreau, 
Daniel  D.  Tompkins,  Martin  Van  Buren,  Elihu  B.  Washburne, 
Daniel  Webster,  Fletcher  Webster,  Nathaniel  Parker  Willis. 


Parke,  Mrs.  James  B. 

Letter  from  James  Anthony  Froude,  to  Mrs.  Parke. 


Smith,  T.  Guilford. 

Letter  from  Sir  Henry  Bessemer,  to  Mr.  Smith. 

Southworth,  M.  M. 

Letter  from   Levi  Woodbury,    to   P.    D.    A.    Parks  and  M.  M. 

Southworth.     Letter  from    Henry  Clay,   to  P.    D.   A.    Parks   and 

M.   M.   Southworth.  [Catalogued  with  Gluck  collection  also,  by 
mistake.] 

Thwaites,  Reuben  Gold. 

Manuscript  of  the  Introduction  to  his  edition  of  The  Jesuit  Rela- 
tions.    Gift  of  the  author. 


Warren,  Joseph. 

Autograph  copy  of  a  poem   by  John  G.   Saxe,    "A  reflective 
retrospect. ' ' 

130 


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Weil,  Dr.  Charles. 

Manuscript  poem  by  Eugene  Field   "  To  mistress  Bessie,"   with 
portrait  of  Field,  the  gift  of  De  Witt  Miller. 


Wilkeson,  John. 

Letter  from  Gov.  De  Witt  Clinton  to  Judge  Wilkeson  of  Buffalo. 
Promissory  note  made  by  Brigham  Young  to  Milton  Sheldon,  16 
March,  1830. 


Wilson,  Francis. 

First  page  of  the  manuscript  of  Eugene  Field  as  I  Knew  Him, 
with  signature  and  portrait.      Clift  of  the  author. 


131 


INDEX. 


ilBINGER,  Lord,  Letter  to  Barry, 
Gen.  William  F., 

Adam,  Robert  B.,  Gift  of  mss., 

Adams,  John  Quincy,  Letter  from, 
see  Norton  collection,      ,     ,     .     . 

Address  to  certain  golden  fishes, 
see  Coleridge,  Hartley,  .... 

Adventures  of  Huckleberry  Finn,  see 
Clemens,  Samuel  Langhorne, 

After-life,  see  Cranch,  Christopher 
Pearse, 

Aikin,  Dr.  John,  Letter  to,  from 
Montgomery,  James,      .... 

Alcott,  Amos  Bronson 

Poem  on  his  86th  birthday,  see 
Alcott,  Louisa  May,  .... 

Alcott,  Louisa  May, 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,   .... 

Letter   to,  from    Davis,   Rebecca 

Blaine  Harding, 

Allison,  John, 

America,  see  Smith,  The  Rev.  Sam- 
uel Francis, 

American  lordship,  An,  see  Lathrop, 
George  Parsons, 

American  midshipmen  at  the  tomb 
of  Napoleon,  see  Fremont,  Jessie 
Ann  Benton, 

American  Missionary  Association, 
Report  on,  see  Cable,  George 
Washington, 

Americana  in  libraries  and  bibliog- 
raphies, see  Winsor,  Justin, 

Ames,  Gen.  Adelbert,  Letter  to 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     . 


127 
127 

129 

24 

22 

29 

77 
1 

1 
1 
1 


31 
2 


104 

70 

43 

18 
123 
127 


Ames,  Mrs.  Daniel,  see  Ames,  Mary 
Clemmer, 2 

Ames,  Mary  Clemmer,      ....         2 

Anderson,  Lars,  Letter  to  Barry, 
Gen.  William  F., 127 

Angel  of  charity,  see  Moore, 
Thomas, 77 

Another  new  song  to  Cloris,  see  Dor- 
set, Earl  of, 34 

Anthony,  ^san  Brownell,      ...         2 

Ardmagh,  John,  Archbishop  of, 
Letter  to,  from  Taylor,  The  Rev. 
Jeremy, Ill 

Armstrong,  Gen.  Samuel  C,  Letter 
toBarry,  Gen.  William  F.,      .     .     127 

Arnim,  Bettina  von,  see  Arnim, 
Elisabeth  von, 3 

Arnim,  Elisabeth  von,       ....         3 

Assessors  and  collectors,  see  Coth- 
ran,  George  W., 128 

Atlantis,  see  Lytton,  Earl  of,       .     .       73 

Audubon,  John  James,  Introduction 
to  The  birds  of  America,  see  How- 
land,  Henry  R., 129 

Audubon,  V.  G.,  Letter  from,  see 
Norton  collection, 129 

Autograph  hunting  and  autographs, 
see  Perry,  Nora, 85 

Awake  my  lyre,  see  Percival,  James 
Gates, 84 

DABY  Bell,   see  Aldrich,  Thomas 

Bailey, 2 

Bacon,  Sir  Francis 3 


133 


INDEX 


Bailey,  Philip  James, 

Balzac,  Honore  de, 

Band  of  bluebirds  —  in  autumn,  A, 

see  Hayne,  William  Hamilton, 
Banks,    Gen.     Nathaniel     Prentiss, 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 
Banks    of    Nith,    The,    see    Burns, 

Robert, 

Barbara's    history,    The  author   of, 

see  Edwards,  Amelia  Blandford, 
Barnard,  Gen.   John   Gross,    Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  Letters  to, 
Barthelemy,  M.  M.,  Letter  to,  from 

Montalembert, 

Barton,    Bernard,    Letter    to,    from 

Woodthorpe   CoUett,    see    Hogg, 

James, 

Barye,    Antoine  Louis,   Article  on, 

see  De  Kay,  Charles,  .... 
Bates,  Charlotte  Fiske,  .... 
Battle  of  the  Serapis  and  the  Poor 

Richard,    The,    see    Trowbridge, 

John  Townsend, 

Beaconsfield,  Earl  of, 

Beecher,  The  Rev.  Henry  Ward, 
Letter  from,  see  Norton  collec- 
tion,     

.Sermon,   see  Corning,   The    Rev. 

J.  Leonard, 

Belknap,  Gen.  William  Worth,  Let- 
ter to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 

Bentham,  Jeremy, 

Benton,  Thomas  Hart,  Letter  from, 

see  Norton  collection,  .... 
Beranger,  Pierre  Jean  de,  .... 
Bessemer,     Sir    Henry,     Letter    to 

Smith,  T.  Guilford, 

Betrothal,    A,    see  Sherman,    Frank 

Dempster, 

Bigelow,  John, 

Billings,    Josh,     see    Shaw,    Henry 

Wheeler, 

Blackmore,  Richard  Doddridge, 
Blackwell,  Mrs.  Henry  B.,  see  Stone, 

Lucy, 


PAGE 

3 
3 

53 

127 

16 

38 

127 
127 

76 


56 


31 
3 


116 
4 


129 

128 

127 

4 

129 
4 

130 

102 
5 

101 


107 


Blaine,  James  Gillespie,    . 

Blake,  William, 

Blessington,  Countess  of,  . 

Bloede,    Gertrude,    Letter  to,  from 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth, 
Blood  horse.  The,  see  Procter,  Bryan 

Waller 

Boker,  George  Henry,  .... 
Bonaparte,  Napoleon,  Reference  to 

see  Cockburn,  Sir  George,  . 
Book  of  the  flood.  The,  see   Haw 

thorne,  Julian, 

Booth,    Edwin,     Letter    to    Meech 

Bros.,  see  Meech,  Henry,  .  . 
Bouck,     William    C,     Commission 

signed  by,  see  New  York  State, 
Bowen,  Henry  Chandler,  . 
Bowles,  Caroline  Anne,  see  Southey 

Caroline  Anne  Bowles,  .  .  . 
Bowles,  The  Rev.  William  Lisle, 
Boyesen,  Hjalmar  Hjorth,  .  . 
Brahman's  son.  The,   see  Stoddard, 

Richard  Henry, 

Braithwaite,  Mary  Caroline,   Letter 

to  the  Rev.  Charles  E.  Lester,  see 

Wordsworth,  William,  .... 
Bramhall,     John,     Archbishop     of 

Ardmagh,  Letter  to,  from  Taylor, 

The  Rev.  Jeremy,     ..... 

Bright,  John, 

Brightly  hast  thou  fled,  see  Hemans, 

Felicia  Dorothea 

Brinsden,    John,     Letter    to,    from 

Pope,  Alexander, 

Bronte,  Charlotte, 

Brooks,  The  Rev.  Phillips,    .     .     . 

Brown,  Dr.  John, 

Browne,  Charles  Farrar,    .... 
BrowTiing,  Elizabeth  Barrett, 

Browning,  Robert, 

Bryant,  William  Cullen,    .... 

William    Cullen   Bryant,  and  his 
friends,      see     Wilson,     James 

Grant 

Buccaneer,  Introduction  to  the,  see 

Dana,  Richard  Henry,  .... 


PAGE 

5 
G 
6 

72 

91 


i 

24 

51 

129 

80 
7 

104 

7 
7 

107 

125 


111 

8 

54 

89 

8 

9 

9 

10 

10 

14 

16 


123 
30 


134 


INDEX 


Buonarroti,  Michelangelo,  Epitaphs 
by,  see  Cheney,  Ednah  Dow  Little- 
hale,  21 

Burdick,    F.    N.,    Letter    to,    from 

Greeley,  Horace, iS 

Burke,  Edmund, 16 

Burns,  Robert, 16 

Robert  Burns  as  poet  and  person, 
see  Whitman,  Walt,    ....     121 

Burr,  Aaron, 17 

Burroughs,  John, 17 

Butterfly,  The,  see  Sigourney,  Lydia 

Huntley 102 

By  a  mountain  stream,  see  Hemans, 

Felicia  Dorothea, 54 

Byron,  Lord, 17 


VIABLE,  George  Washington,  . 
Calvus,  see  Procter,  Adelaide  Anne, 
Campbell,  Thomas,       .... 

Carleton,  William, 

Carlyle,  Jane  Baillie  Welsh,  .     . 
Carlyle,  Thomas,  Notice  of  his  lee 

tures    on   German   literature,    see 

Hunt,  James  Henry  Leigh,     . 
Carlyle,  Mrs.    Thomas,  see  Carlyle, 

Jane  Baillie  Welsh,  .... 
Carmen    auguratum    auspicans,    se^ 

Alcott,  Amos  Bronson,  . 
Carroll,  John  Lee,  Letter  to  Barry, 

Gen.  William  F.,       .... 

Cary,  Phoebe, 

Cass,  Lewis,  Letter  from,  see  Norton 

collection, 

Chandler,  Bessie,  see  Parker,  Eliza 

beth  Lowber  Chandler,       .     . 
Channing,  The  Rev.  William  EUery 
Chapin,  The  Rev.  Edwin  Hubbell 
Chase,  Salmon  Portland,   . 

Letter   from,   see    Norton    coUec 

tion, 

Chautauqua  Literary  and  Scientific 

Circle,  Article  on,  see  Hale,  The 

Rev.  Edward  Everett,    .... 
Cheney,  Ednah  Dow  Littlehale, 


18 
90 
18 
19 
19 


60 


19 


127 
19 

129 

82 
20 
20 
20 

129 


49 
21 


PAGE 

Cheney,  John  Vance, 21 

Cheney,      Mrs.      Seth     Wells,     see 

Cheney,  Ednah  Dow  Littlehale,  .  21 
Child,    Mrs.    David  Lee,  see  Child, 

Lydia  Maria  Francis 21 

Child,  Lydia  Maria  Francis,  ...       21 
Child  of  the  age,    A,   see  Boyesen, 

Hjalmar  Hjorth, 8 

Children's   cherry    feast,    The,    see 

Perry,  Nora, 84 

Chivalry,  see  Scott,  Sir  Walter,  .     .       99 
Christmas   love.    The,    see   Thorpe, 

Rose  Hartwick, 113 

Circling  fancies,  see  Gosse,  Edmund 

William, 46 

Clark,  Myron  Holley,  Letter  from, 

see  Norton  collection,  ....  129 
Clarke,  The  Rev.  James  Freeman,  .  21 
Clay,  Henry 22 

Letter  from,  see  Norton  collection,  129 
Clemens,  Samuel  Langhorne,  .  .  22 
Clemmer,    Mary,    see    Ames,    Mary 

Clemmer, 2 

Cleveland,  Grover, 22 

Clinton,       De     Witt,     Commission 

signed  by,  see  New  York  State,       80 

Letter   from,   see   Norton   collec- 
tion,     129 

Letter    to    Judge    Wilkeson,    see 

Wilkeson,  John, 131 

Clinton,  George,  Commission  signed 

by,  see  New  York  State,  ...  80 
Cloud  of  witnesses,  The,  see  Tilton, 

Theodore, 115 

Cloud  on  the  mountain,  A,  jf^Foote, 

Mary  Anna  Hallock,  ....  42 
Cobbe,  Frances  Power,  ....  23 
Cockburn,  Sir  George,      ....       24 

Coleridge,  Hartley, 24 

Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor,     ...       25 

Letter  to,  from  Lamb,  Charles,    .       67 

Sonnet   on,    see    Rossetti,    Dante 

Charles  Gabriel, 96 

Collett,  Woodthorpe,  Letter  to  Ber- 
nard Barton,  see  Hogg,  James,     .       56 
Collins,  William  Wilkie 25 


135 


INDEX 


PAGE 

CoUyer,  The  Rev.  Robert,     ...       26 
Come  to  me,  Sleep  !   see   Hemans, 

Felicia  Dorothea 54 

Cone,  Helen  Gray, 26 

Congreve,  William, 26 

Epistle  to,  see  Dryden,  John,   .     .       37 
Connery,  The  Rev.    Father,  Letter 
to,   from  Newman,   John  Henry, 

Cardinal, 80 

Conway,  The  Rev.  Moncure  Daniel,       27 
Cook,  Clarence  Chatham,       ...       27 

Coolbrith,  Ina  Donna, 28 

Coolidge,  Susan,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah 

Chauncey, 124 

Cooper,  James  Fenimore,       ...       28 
Cooper,   Paul  F.,   Letter  to  L.    B. 
Proctor,  see  Cooper,  James  Feni- 
more,       28 

Cooper,  Peter,  On  the  death  of,  see 

Miller,  Cincinnatus  Hiner,  .  .  76 
Corning,  The  Rev.  J.  Leonard,  Gift 

of  ms., 128 

Cornwall,  Barry,  see  Procter,  Bryan 

Waller, 91 

Corwin,    Thomas,    Letter  from,   see 

Norton  collection, 129 

Cothran,  George  W., 128 

Count  Frontenac  and  New  France 
under  Louis  XIV,   see  Parkman, 

Francis, 83 

Country  doctor.  A,  see  Jewett,  Sarah 

Orne, 64 

Cowper,  William, 29 

Crabbe,  The  Rev.  George,     ...       29 
Letter  to,  from  Bowles,  The  Rev. 

William  Lisle, 7 

Craddock,  Charles  Egbert,  see  Mur- 

free,  Mary  Noailles, 79 

Cradle  tomb  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
The,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah  Chaun- 
cey,    124 

Craik,  Dinah  Maria  Mulock,       .     .       29 
Craik,  Mrs.  George  Lillie,  see  Craik, 

Dinah  Maria  Mulock,  ....  29 
Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,  ...  29 
Crawford,  Francis  Marion,     ...        30 


Crazy-quilt  memory.  The,  see  Sill, 
Edward  Rowland, 

Cressid,  see  Perry,  Nora,   .... 

Cross,  Mrs.  John  William,  see  Eliot, 
George 

Cross,  Marian,  see  Eliot,  George, 

Crown  of  life,  The,  see  Chapin,  The 
Rev.  Edwin  Hubbell,     .... 

Curtis,  George  William,  .... 
Letter  from,  see  Norton  collec- 
tion,    

Cushman,  Charlotte,  Letter  to 
Keene,  Mary  V., 

Custer,  Gen.  George  Armstrong, 
Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  Wil- 
liam F., 


102 

85 

38 
38 

20 
30 

129 

129 

127 


D 


ANA,  Charles  Anderson,  Letter 
to,  from  Cook,  Clarence  Chat- 
ham,        27 

Dana,  Richard  Henry, 30 

Davis,     Admiral     Charles     Henry, 
Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     127 

Davis,  Jefferson, 31 

Davis,  Mrs.   Lemuel  Clark,  see  Da- 
vis, Rebecca  Blaine  Harding,       .       31 
Davis,  Rebecca  Blaine  Harding,     .       31 
Day  at  Tivoli,  A,  see  Stowe,   Har- 
riet Elizabeth  Beecher,  ....     108 

De  Kay,  Charles, 31 

De  Quincey,  Thomas, 31 

De  Vere,  Aubrey, 128 

Dickens,  Charles, 32 

Dickinson,  Anna  Elizabeth,  ...       32 
Dime  museums,  j^(?  Wood,  The  Rev. 

John  George, 124 

Dirge    for    a     soldier,    see    Boker, 

George  Henry, 7 

Discovery   of    America,    The   first, 

see  Kingsley,  The  Rev.   Charles,       66 
Disinterested  report.    A,  see  Cable, 

George  Washington,       ....       18 
Disraeli,  Benjamin,  see  Beaconsfield, 

Earl  of, 4 

Disraeli,  Isaac, 33 


136 


INDEX 


Diuine  miscellanies,  see  Watts,  The 

Rev.  Isaac, 119 

Dix,  John  Adams,   Letter  from,  see 

Norton  collection, 129 

Doctor,  The,  see  Southey,  Robert,  .  104 

Dodge,  Mary  Abby, 33 

Dodge,  Mary  Mapes, 34 

Dodge,    Mrs,    William,   see   Dodge, 

Mary  Mapes, 34 

Domestic  service,  see  Whipple,  Ed- 
win Percy, 120 

Dorr,  Julia  Caroline  Ripley,  ...  34 
Dorr,    Mrs.    Seneca    R.,  see    Dorr, 

Julia  Caroline  Ripley,    ....  34 

Dorset,  Earl  of, 34 

Douglass,  Frederick, 34 

Dream  of  songs  unsung.  A,  see  Dorr, 

Julia  Caroline  Ripley,    ....  34 
Drifting  down  Lost  Creek,  see  Mur- 

free,  Mary  Noailles,       ....  79 

Dryden,  John, 37 

Lecture  on,  see  Hazlitt,  William,  53 

Dumas,  Alexandre, 37 

Earl  Walter,  see  Hogg,  James,    .     .  56 
Earle,    John    Charles,    Letters    to, 

from  De  Vere,  Aubrey,       .     .     .  128 
Eastman,  Elaine  Goodale,      ...  37 
Easy  Chair,  sec  Curtis,  George  Wil- 
liam,         30 

Ebb-tide,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah  Chaun- 

cey, 124 

Eckford,     Henry,     see     De      Kay, 

Charles, 31 

Edgeworth,  Maria, 38 

Edwards,  Amelia  Blandford,      .     .  38 

Eggleston,  Edward, 38 

Eighteen,      see      Woolsey,       Sarah 

Chauncey, 124 

Eliot,  George, 38 

Ellis,   F.   S.,   Letter  to,   from  Ros- 

setti,  Dante  Charles  Gabriel,  .     .  97 
Elliston,    R.    W.,    Letter   to,    from 
John  Howard  Payne,  see   Harri- 
son, Gabriel, 129 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,    ....  39 

Letter  from,  see  Norton  collection,  129 


Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,   Poem  on, 

see  Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,       29 

Sonnet    on,    see    Moulton,    Ellen 

Louise  Chandler, 79 

Emigrant,       The,      see     Campbell, 

Thomas, 18 

Ettrick   Shepherd,    The,   see   Hogg, 

James, 50 

Evans,   Marian,   or  Mary  Ann,   sec 

Eliot,  George, 38 

Even    so,    see    Miller,     Cincinnatus 

Hiner, 76 

Evening,  see  Percival,  James  Gates,      ^4 
Everett,  Edward,    Letter  from,    see 

Norton  collection, 129 


JTaCE  to    face,   sec   Hayne,    Paul 

Hamilton, 53 

Failure    and    success,    see     Gilder, 

Richard  Watson, 45 

Faith    healing   and  fear  killing,  see 

Cobbe,  Frances  Power,       ...       23 
Father  Junipero  and  his  work,  see 

Jackson,  Helen  Maria  Fiske,  .     .       62 
Faust,  Notes  to  part  2,  see  Taylor, 

Bayard, Ill 

Fawcett,   Edgar, 40 

Female     characters    of     Scott,    see 

Landon,  Letitia  Elizabeth,      .     .       G9 
Fern,  Fanny,  see  Parton,  Sarah  Pay- 
son  Willis, 83 

Festus  Birth-day  Book,  see  Bailey, 

Philip  James, 3 

Field,  Eugene,  To  mistress  Bessie, 

see  Weil,  Dr.  Charles,      .     .     .     131 

Eugene  Field  as  I  knew  him,  see 

Wilson,  Francis, 131 

Field,  Kate,  sec  Field,  Mary  Kathe- 

rine  Kemble, 40 

40 
40 
40 


Field,  Mary  Katherine  Kemble, 

Fields,  Annie  Adams 

Fields,  James  Thomas,  .  .  . 
Letters  to,  from 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel,  . 

Willis,  Nathaniel  Parker,     . 


52 
122 


187 


INDEX 


Fields,  J.  T.,  Review  of  Biograph- 
ical notes  on,  see  Fiske,  John, 
Fields,     Mrs.    James    Thomas,    see 

Fields,  Annie  Adams,  .  .  •  . 
Fields,  Osgood  &  Co.,   Letters  to, 

from 

Dickens,  Charles 

Forster,  John 

Fillmore,  Millard,  Letter  from,  see 
Norton  collection,      .... 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F. , 

Fish,    Hamilton,     Letter  from,   see 

Norton  collection,       .... 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 

Fiske,  John, 

Flag   of  the   constellation.   The,  see 

Read,  Thomas  Buchanan,  . 
Flake    white,    see    Thomas,    Edith 

Matilda, 

Foote,    Mrs.    Arthur  De  Wint,   see 

Foote,  Mary  Anna  Hallock,  .  . 
Foote,  Mary  Anna  Hallock,  .  .  . 
For  the  king,  see  Harte,  Bret,  .  . 
Foregone  conclusion,  A,  j-<'e?  Howells, 

William  Dean, 

Forster,  John, 

Franklin,   Benjamin, 

Franklin,  Gen.  William  Buel,  Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     . 
Fremont,  Jessie  Ann  Benton,     . 
Frothingham,     The    Rev.   Octavius 

Brooks, 

Froude,  James  Anthony,   Letter  to 

Parke,  Mrs.  James  B.,  .  .  .  . 
Fryer,  T.  T.,  Gift  of  ms.,  .  .  . 
Fuller,  Sarah    Margaret,  see  Ossoli, 

Sarah  Margaret  Fuller,  .... 


VJARDINER,  Marguerite,  jf^Bless- 
ington.  Countess  of, 

Garfield,  James  Abram,  Poem  on  his 
death,  see  Alcott,  Amos  Bronson, 

Gibbons,  Mrs.  Charles  W.,  Gift  of 
mss., 

Gifts,  see  Lazarus,  Emma, 


42 

40 


32 

42 

129 
127 

130 

127 

42 

91 

113 

42 
42 
51 

57 
42 
42 

127 
43 

43 

130 

128 

81 


128 
70 


Gilbert,   Sir  John,   Letter  to,  from 

Ruskin,  John 97 

Gilder,  Richard  Watson,  ....       44 
Letter  to,   from  Gosse,    Edmund 

William, 46 

Gladstone,  William  Ewart,    ...       45 
Gluck,    James   Eraser,    Letters   to, 
from 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey,  .  .  1 
Dorr,  Julia  Caroline  Ripley,  .  34 
Eastman,  Elaine  Goodale,  .  .  37 
McMaster,  John  Bach,    ...        75 

Parton,  James, 83 

Proctor,  Lewis  B.,  see  Cooper, 

James  Fenimore,  ....  28 
Stockton,  Francis  Richard,  .  107 
Thaxter,  Celia  Laighton,  .  .  113 
Warner,  Charles  Dudley,  .  .  118 
Woolsey,  Sarah  Chauncey,  .     .     124 

Godwin,  Parke, 46 

Godwin,  William, 46 

Golden  egg  and  cock  of  gold.  The, 

see  Scudder,   Horace  Elisha,    .     .     100 
Goodale,      Elaine,      see     Eastman, 

Elaine  Goodale 37 

Goodwin,     Col.,     Letter    to,     from 

James,   George  Payne  Rainsford,       G2 
Gordon,  A.,  Letter  to  George  Birk- 

beck  Hill,  see  Adam,  Robert  B.,     127 
Gordon,  Gen.  Charles  George,  Let- 
ter to  H.  W.   Gordon,  see  Adam, 

Robert  B., 127 

Gordon,  Henry  W.,  Letter  to  George 
Birkbeck  Hill,  see  Adam,  Robert 

B., 127 

Gosse,  Edmund  William,  ....        46 
Grant,  Gen.  Ulysses  Simpson,     .     .       47 
Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     127 
Ode  to,  see  Rohlfs,  Anna  Kath- 
arine Green, 96 

Grass  of  Parnassus,  see  Lang,  An- 
drew,       69 

Gray,  David,  Editor's  introduction, 

see  Fryer,  T.  T., 128 

Lecture    on    Robert     Burns,    see 
Johnston,  James  N.,  .     .     .     .     129 


138 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Gray,  Thomas, 47 

Great  international  walking  match, 

The,  see  Dickens,  Charles,       .     .  32 

Greeley,  Horace, 48 

Green,  Anna  Katharine,  see  Rohlfs, 

Anna  Katharine  Green,  ...  9G 
Greenwood,   Grace,  see   Lippincott, 

Sarah  Jane  Clarke, 71 

Guizot,  Frangois  Pierre  Guillaume,  49 

n.,   H.,  j-^' Jackson,  Helen  Maria 

Fiske, 62 

Hahn,    Hon.    Michael,     Letter    to, 

from  Lincoln,  Abraham,  ...  70 
Hale,  Mrs.   David,  see  Hale,   Sarah 

Josepha  Buell, 49 

Hale,  The  Rev.  Edward  Everett,  .  49 
Hale,  Sarah  Josepha  Buell,  ...  49 
Haliburton,  Thomas  Chandler,  .  .  .50 
Hall,  S.  C,  Letter  to,  from  He- 
mans,  Felicia  Dorothea,  ...  54 
Halleck,    Fitz-Greene,    see    Wilson, 

Gen.  James  Grant, 123 

Hamilton,  Alexander, 50 

Hamilton,   Gail,    see   Dodge,    Mary 

Abby, 33 

Hamilton,  James  Alexander,  Letter 
to  Ticknor  &  Fields,  see  Hamil- 
ton, Alexander, 50 

Hamilton,  Sir  William,     ....       50 
Hamley,  Col.  Edward  Bruce,  Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  .  .  127 
Hamlin,  Hannibal,  Letter  to  Barry, 

Gen.  W^illiam  F., 127 

Handsome  is  as  handsome  does,  by 
Ch — s  R — de,  see  Harte,  Bret,     .       51 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler, 51 

Harris,  William  Torrey,    ....       51 
Harrison,  Gabriel,  Gift  of  ms.,   .     .     129 
Hart   &   Wilkens,    Letter   to,   from 
Hamilton,  Sir  William,       ...       50 

Harte,  Bret, 51 

Haug,    Hofrath,     Letter    to,     from 

Kichter,  Jean  Paul  Friedrich,  .  .  92 
Hawthorne,  Julian, 51 

1 


PAGE 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel 52 

Hay,  Col.  John 52 

Hayne,  Paul  Hamilton,     ....        53 
Hayne,  William  Hamilton,     ...        53 

Hazlitt,   William, 53 

Headsman,  The,  see  Cooper,  James 

Fenimore, 28 

Heart-oracles,     see     Dodge,     Mary 

Mapes, 34 

Heine,  Heinrich, 54 

Hemans,  Felicia  Dorothea,    ...       54 
Hesketh,     Lady,     Letter    to,    from 

Cowper,   William, 29 

Higginson,     The      Rev.      Thomas 

Wentworth, 55 

Hill,  Aaron,  see  Payne,  John  How- 
ard,   84 

Hill,  George  Birkbeck,   Letters  to, 

and  from,  see  Adam,  Robert  B.,  .  127 
Hill,   John  G,   H.,  Letter  to  Lord 

Shaftesbury,    see    Cockburn,     Sir 

George, 24 

Hill,  Sir  Rowland,  Letter  from,  see 

Adam,  Robert  B., 127 

Hillard,  George  Stillman,       ...       5G 

Letter   to,    from   Dana,    Richard 

Henry, 30 

Hoff,     Rear-Adm.     Henry     Kuhn, 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  127 
Hoffman,  John   Thompson,    Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     .     127 

Hogg,  James, 56 

Holland,  Josiah  Gilbert,  Letter  from, 

see  Norton  collection,  ....  130 
Holmes,  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell,  .  .  57 
Home  sweet  home,  see  Payne,  John 

Howard, 84 

Honoria,  see  Porter,  Rose,      ...       89 

Hood,  Thomas, 57 

Hooker,  Isabella  Beecher,      ...       57 
Hooker,    Mrs.    John,    see    Hooker, 

Isabella  Beecher, 57 

Hope,     James    Barron,     Letter     to 

Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  .  .  .  127 
Hoppner,      John      William     Rizzo, 

Lines  on,  see  Byron,  Lord,       .     .       17 

:9 


INDEX 


Hoppner,  Th.   B.,  Letter  to,    from 

Byron,  Lord, 17 

Horsey,   Algernon,   F.   R.    de,  Let- 
ter to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     127 
How  I  was  educated,  see  Higginson, 

Thomas  Wentvvorth,     ....       55 
Howells,  William  Dean,    ....       57 
Howland,  Henry  R.,  Gift  of  ms.,    .     129 
Huckleberry     Finn,     Adventures 
of,    see   Clemens,    Samuel    Lang- 
home,    22 

Hudson,   Mrs.    Edmund,  see  Ames, 

Mary  Clemmer, 2 

Hughes,  Anne  Frances  Ford,     .     .       58 

Hughes,  Margaret  L., 59 

Hughes,  Thomas, 58 

Hughes,  Mrs.  Thomas,  see  Hughes, 

Anne  Frances  Ford, 58 

Hugo,  Victor  Marie, 59 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Edward  B.,  see  Jackson, 

Helen  Maria  Fiske, 62 

Hunt,    Helen,    see  Jackson,    Helen 

Maria  Fiske, 62 

Hunt,  James  Henry  Leigh,    ...        59 
Hunting  song,    see  Percival,    James 

Gates, 84 

Hutton,  Laurence,    Letter  to,   from 

Jefferson,  Joseph 63 

Huxley,  Thomas  Henry,    ....       61 

If  this  great  world  of  joy  and  pain, 

see  Wordsworth,  W^illiam,   .      .      .      125 

In  farewell,  sec  Rohlfs,  Anna  Kath- 
arine Green, 96 

In  primrose  time,  see  Piatt,  Sarah 
Morgan  Bryan, 86 

In  the  Happy  Valley,  see  Craik,  Di- 
nah Maria  Mulock 29 

Indian  summer.  The,  see  Lover, 
Samuel, 72 

Ingelow,  Jean, 61 

Ireland,  Mr.,  Lelicr  to,   from  Trol- 

lope,   Anthony, 115 

Irony,  see  Fawcett,   Edgar,     ...       40 

Irving,  Washington, 61 


J  PAGE 

ACKSON,  Andrew,       ....       61 
Jackson,  Helen  Maria  Fiske,       .      .        62 
Jackson,  Mrs.  William  S.,  see  Jack- 
son, Helen  Maria  Fiske,      ...        62 
James,  George  Payne  Rainsford,     .       62 

James,  Henry, 62 

Jameson,  Anna  Brownell  Murphy,  .       63 
Jameson,  Mrs.  Robert,  see  Jameson, 

Anna  Brownell  Murphy,  ...  63 
Janvier,  Thomas  Allibone,  ...  63 
Jay,  John,   Commission  signed  by, 

see  New  York  State, 80 

Jean  Paul,   see  Richter,   Jean    Paul 

Friedrich, 92 

Jefferson,  Joseph, 63 

Jefferson,  Thomas, 63 

Jenner,  The  Rev.  G.   C,  Letter  to, 

from  Jefferson,  Thomas,  ...  64 
Jerdan,    William,    Letter   to,     from 

Lytton,  Baroness, 73 

Jewett,  Sarah  Orne, 64 

John  Halifax,  gentleman.  The  author 
of,  see  Craik,  Dinah  Maria  Mu- 
lock,  29 

Johns,  The  Rev.  John,  Letter  to 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F,,     .     .     .     127 

Johnson,  Dr.  Samuel, 64 

Johnston,  James  N.,  Gift  of  ms.,     .     129 
Joinville,  Prince  de,  Letter  to  Barry, 

Gen.  William  F., 127 

Jones,    John    Paul,    Rhyme   of,   see 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend,  .  116 
Jones,  Noble  Wimberley,  Letter  to, 

from  Franklin,  Benjamin,   ...       43 
Julian,    George  W. ,  Review  of   his 
Political  recollections,  see  Lodge, 
Henry  Cabot 71 

iA.ANT,  Immanuel,  Criticism  of 
his  Main  principles,  see  Stirling, 
James  Hutchison, 106 

Kearney,  Gen.  Philip,  Dirge  for,  see 
Boker,  George  Henry,   ....  7 

Keats,  John, 65 

Keene,  Mary  V.,  Gift  of  ms.,     .      .      129 


140 


INDEX 


Kelp-gatherers,  The,  see  Trowbridge, 

John  Townsend, IIG 

Kent,  James, G6 

King,  The  Rev.  Thomas  Starr,  .     .  G6 
King's  missive.    The,   see  Whittier, 

John  Greenleaf, 121 

Kingsley,  The  Rev.  Charles,       .     .  GO 

Kingsley,  Rose  Georgina,       .     .     .  (JG 
Kit  Carson's  ride,  see  Miller,    Cin- 

cinnatus  Hiner, 76 

Kotzebue,  August  Friedrich  Ferdi- 
nand von, G6 

LaDY'S  sonnet:  Twilight,  The, 
see  Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,    .       29 

Lamartine,  Alphonse  Marie  Louis 
de  Prat  de, 67 

Lamb,  Charles, 67 

Landon,  Letitia  Elizabeth,     ...       69 

Lang,  Andrew, 69 

Lamed,  Josephus  Nelson,  Letters 
to,  from 

Cleveland,  Grover,     ....       23 
Winsor,  Justin, 123 

Lass  Lurline,  see  Cheney,  John 
Vance, 21 

I-athrop,  George  Parsons,      ...       70 

Lazarus,  Emma, 70 

Leave  me  not  yet  !  see  Hemans, 
Felicia  Dorothea, 54 

Lee,  Gen.  Robert  Edward,  Letter  to 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     .     .     127 

Lehmann,  Dr.,  Letter  to,  from  Ar- 
nim,  Elisabeth  von, 3 

Leissring,  Herr,  Letter  to,  from 
Kotzebue,  August  Friedrich  Fer- 
dinand von, 67 

Lester,  The  Rev.  Charles  Edwards, 
Letter  to,  from  Mary  Caroline 
Braithwaite,  j'^^  Wordsworth,  Wil- 
liam,  125 

Lettsom,  William  Nanson,  Letter  to, 
from  Tupper,  Martin  Farquhar,   .     116 

Lewes,  Mrs.  George  Henry,  see 
Eliot,  George, 38 


PAGE 

Lewes,  Marian,  see  Eliot,  George,  .       38 

Lewis,  Morgan,  Commission  signed 
by,  see  New  York  State,     ...       80 

Lightning  flash.  A,  see  Montgomery, 
George  Edgar, 76 

Lincoln,  Abraham, 70 

Abraham  Lincoln,  the  true  story 
of  a  great  life,  see  Stoddard, 
William  Osborn, 107 

Lincoln,  Mrs.  Abraham,  Letter  to, 
from  Lincoln,  Abraham,     ...       70 

Linley,  William,  Sonnet  to,  see  Col- 
eridge, Samuel  Taylor,        ...       25 

Lippincott,  Mrs.  Leander  K.,  see 
Lippincott,  Sarah  Jane  Clarke,    .        71 

Lippincott,  Sarah  Jane  Clarke,  .      .       71 

Litchfield,  Grace  Denio,    ....       71 

Livingston,  Philip,  Letter  from,  see 
Norton  collection, 130 

Lodge,  Henry  Cabot, 71 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth,       .       72 
Lecture    on,    see    Fields,    James 
Thomas, 41 

Loose  thoughts  relative  to  the  Two 
Sicilies  and  its  present  situa- 
tion, 1799,  see  Hamilton,  Sir 
William, 50 

Lossing,  Benson  John,  Letter  from, 
see  Norton  collection 130 

Louise,  Queen  of  Prussia,  Poem  on 
her  statue,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah 
Chauncey, 124 

Love  at  first  sight,  see  Matthews, 
Brander, 75 

Lovell,  Col.  Joseph,  Letters  to, 
from  Clay,  Henry, 22 

Lover,  Samuel 72 

Lover's  sonnet  :  Midnight,  see 
Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,    .     .       29 

Love's  resurrection  day,  see  Moul- 
ton,  Ellen  Louise  Chandler,     .     .        79 

Lowell,  James  Russell,      ....       72 

Lucas,  S.,  Letter  to,  from  Beacons- 
field,  Earl  of, 4 

Lyons,  Lord,  Letter  to  Barry,  Gen. 

William  F., 127 


141 


INDEX 


Lyric   of    action,    see   Hayne,    Paul 

Hamilton, 53 

Lytton,  Baron, 73 

Lytton,  Baroness, 73 

Lytton,  Earl  of, 73 


M. 


Thomas    Babing- 


74 


127 


127 


21 


89 


69 


lACAULAY, 

ton, 

McClellan,    Gen.    George   Brinton, 

Letter    to    Barry,   Gen.    William 

F 

McDowell,    Gen.    Irwin,   Letter   to 

Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  .  .  . 
Machine   in    politics   and    religion, 

The,  see  Clarke,  James  Freeman, 

McKay,  James  T., 75 

Mackenzie,  Thomas  G.,    Letter  to, 

from  Poe,  Edgar  Allan,  .  .  . 
Maclean,  Mrs.  George,  see  Landon, 

Letitia  Elizabeth, 

McMahon,   I.    C.,   Letter  to,    from 

Davis,  Jefferson, 31 

McMaster,  John  Bach,      ....        75 
Making  peace,  see  Piatt,  Sarah  Mor- 
gan Bryan, 86 

Mann,  Horace,  Letter  to,  from  Mot- 
ley, John  Lothrop, 77 

Marble,  Manton, 75 

Marble   queen.    The,    see   Woolsey, 

Sarah  Chauncey, 124 

Marcy,    William     L.,    Commission 

signed  by,  see  New  York  State,     .       80 
Mark  Twain,  see  Clemens,  Samuel 

Langhorne, 22 

Matthews,  Brander, 75 

Meade,  Gen.  George  Gordon,  Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 
Meech,  Henry,  Gift  of  ms. ,    .     .     . 
Meech  Bros.,  Letter  to,  from  Edwin 

Booth,  see  Meech,  Henry,  .  .  . 
Melanchthon,  Philipp,  .... 
Meredith,    Owen,   see  Lytton,   Earl 

of, 

Merlin,  M.,  Letter  to,  from  Balzac, 

Honore  de, 


127 

129 

129 

75 

73 


Meyer,  Gen.   Albert  James,   Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     .     127 
Michelangelo  Buonarroti,   Epitaphs 
by,  see  Cheney,  Ednah  Dow  Little- 
hale,       21 

Miller,  Cincinnatus  Hiner,     ...       76 
Miller,  De  Witt,  Gift  of  portrait  of 

Eugene  Field, 131 

Miller,  Joaquin,  see  Miller,   Cincin- 
natus Hiner, 76 

Milton,  John,  Sonnet  on,  see  Long- 
fellow, Henry  Wadsworth,       .     .        72 
Miss  Ingelow  and  Mrs.  Walford,  see 

Preston,  Harriet  Waters,     ...       90 
Mission     flower,     A,     see     Picard, 

George  Henry, 86 

Mrs.    Berty's    tea,  At,  see  Janvier, 

Thomas  AUibone, 63 

Mrs.    Reynolds'  cat.   Sonnet  to,  sec 

Keats,  John, 65 

Mitford,  Mary  Russell,      ....        76 
Monitions  of  the  unseen.   The,    sec 

Ingelow,  Jean, 61 

Monsieur     Maurice,    see    Edwards, 

Amelia  Blandford, 38 

Montalembert,  Comte  de,       ...       76 
Montgomery,  George  Edgar,       .     .       76 

Montgomery,  James, 77 

Moore,  Thomas, 77 

Moral  mechanics  and  dynamics,  see 

Clarke,  James  Freeman,     ...       21 
Moral  statistics  of  the  United  States, 
On  the  imperfect   knowledge   of 
the,      see      Woolsey,      Theodore 

Dwight, 124 

Morell,   Gen.  George  Webb,  Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     .     127 
Morris,    Robert,     Letter    from,    see 

Norton  collection, 130 

Motley,  John  Lothrop,       ....        77 
Mott,  Mrs.  James,  j^^Mott,  Lucretia 

Coffin, 78 

Mott,  Lucretia  Coffin, 78 

Moulton,  Ellen  Louise  Chandler,     .       79 
Moulton,    Mrs.     William     A.,     see 
Moulton,  Ellen  Louise  Chandler,       79 


142 


INDEX 


PAGE 

Miihlbach,  Luise,  see  Mundt,   Klara 

Miiller, 79 

Muhlenberg,  Gen.   John  Peter  Ga- 
briel,       79 

Mulock,    Dinah    Maria,    see   Craik, 
Dinah  Maria  Mulock,     ....       29 

Mundt,  Klara  Miiller, 79 

Mundt,   Frau  Theodor,   see  Mundt, 

Klara  Miiller, 79 

Murfree,  Mary  Noailles,     ....        79 
My  echo,  see  Fawcett,  Edgar,     .     .       40 
My  rival,  see  Parker,  Elizabeth  Low- 
bar  Chandler, 82 


0 


N 


APIER,  Gen.,   Letter  to  Barry, 
Gen.  William  F. , 

Napoleon  I,  Reference  to,  see  Cock- 
burn,  Sir  George, 

Narrative  and  critical  history  of 
America,  see  Winsor,  Justin,    . 

Negro  problem,  see 

Cable,  George  Washington,     .     . 
Davis,  Rebecca  Blaine  Harding,  . 

Pillsbury,  Parker, 

Sumner,  Charles, 

Neville,  Lieut. -Col.  Edvi'ard,  Letter 
to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     . 

New  England  two  centuries  ago,  see 
Lowell,  James  Russell,  .... 

New  portfolio.  The,  see  Holmes,  Dr. 
Oliver  Wendell, 

New  York  State,  Governors  of,  . 

Newman,  John  Henry,  Cardinal,    . 

Niagara  Falls,  see  Carleton,  Wil- 
liam,        

Nicholls,  Charlotte,  see  Bronte, 
Charlotte, 

Nichols,  J.  B.,  Letter  to,  from 
Patmore,  Coventry  Kearsey  Digh- 
ton, 

North  and  South,  see  Lytton,  Earl 
of, 

Norton  collection  of  manuscripts,    . 

November,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah 
Chauncey, 


127 

24 

123 

18 

31 

88 

109 

127 

72 

57 

80 
80 

19 


83 

73 
129 

124. 


PAGE 

BERON,  see  Cone,  Helen  Gray,  26 
Obseruations  in  trayuelle,  see  Over- 
bury,  Sir  Thomas, 82 

Odyssey,   Preface  to  translation  of, 

see  Bryant,  William  Cullen,     .     .  16 
Oh  !   how  sweet  to  think  hereafter, 

see  Moore,  Thomas, 77 

Oilier,  C.  &  J.,   Letter  to  (?),  from 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe,  ....  101 
One  thirty-six  hours  on  the  Denver 
and    Rio    Grande    Railroad,    see 

Jackson,  Helen  Maria  Fiske,  .     .  62 
Orange-bough,    The,    see   Hemans, 

Felicia  Dorothea, 54 

O'Reilly,  John  Boyle, 81 

Osgood,  James  R.,  Letters  to,  from 

Dickens,  Charles, 32 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler,   ....  51 

Hay,  Col.  John, 52 

Longfellow,    Henry    Wadsworth,  72 

Saxe,  John  Godfrey,       ....  99 

Tennyson,  Alfred, 112 

Ossoli,  Sarah  Margaret  Fuller,   .     .  81 

Ouida,  see  Rame,  Louise  de  la,  .     .  91 

Overbury,  Sir  Thomas,      ....  82 


r  ARTS,  Comte  de,  Letter  to  Barry, 
Gen.  William  F., 128 

Parke,  Mrs.  James  B.,  Gift  of  ms.,     130 

Parker,    Elizabeth  Lowber   Chand- 
ler,     

Parker,  Mrs.  Leroy,  see  Parker,  Eliz- 
abeth Lowber  Chandler,     .     . 

Parker,  The  Rev.  Theodore,       .     . 

Parkes,  Mrs.  Joseph,  Letter  to,  from 
Jameson,  Anna  Brownell  Murphy, 

Parkman,  Francis, 

Parks,   P.   D.   A.,  Letters  to,   from 

Clay,  Henry 22,  130 

Woodbury,  Levi,  see  Southworth, 
M.  M., 130 

Parton,  James, 83 

Parton,    Mrs.    James,    see    Parton, 
Sarah  Payson  Willis,      ....       83 

Parton,  Sarah  Payson  Willis,      .     .       83 


143 


INDEX 


from 


Patience    and    toasted    cheese,    see 

Southey,  Caroline  Anne  Bowles, 
Patmore,    Coventry   Kearsey   Digh- 

ton 

Patterson,   Gen.   Robert,   Letter   to 

Barry,  Gen.  William  F 

Paul,  John,  see  Jones,  John  Paul,     . 
Payne,  John  Howard 

Letter  to  R.  W.  Elliston,  see  Har- 
rison, Gabriel, 

Peabody,  Elizabeth  Palmer,  Letters 
to,  from 

Hughes,  Anne  Frances  Ford, 

Hughes,  Thomas, 

Sedgwick,  Catherine  Maria,     . 
Percival,  James  Gates,       .... 
Perkins,    Norman    C,    Letters    to, 
from 

Pierpont,  The  Rev.  John, 

Sparks,  The  Rev.  Jared, 

Perry,  Nora, 

Perry,  Oliver  Hazard,  Letter 

see  Norton  collection, 
Phillips,  Wendell,    .     . 
Piatt,  John  James,   . 
Piatt,    Mrs.  John  James,   see 

Sarah  Morgan  Bryan, 
Piatt,  Sarah  Morgan  Bryan, 
Picard,  George  Henry, 
Pierpont,  The  Rev.  John,  . 
Pillsbury,  Parker,     . 
Pitcher,      Nathaniel,      Commission 

signed   by,  see  New  York  State, 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan, 

Poet   and    the   alchemist,    The,    see 

Smith,  Horatio, 

Pope,  Alexander, 

Lecture  on,  see  Hazlitt,  William, 
Per  el  rey,  see  Harte,  Bret,     .     .     . 
Porter,    Col.   Peter  Augustus,  Let- 
ter to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     . 

Porter,   Rose, 

Powell,  Thomas,  The  English  Muse 

to,  see  Disraeli,  Isaac,     .... 
Premonition,  see  Stoddard,    Charles 

Warren, 


104 

83 

128 
116 

84 

129 


Piatt 


58 

58 

100 

84 


80 
105 

84 

130 

85 
86 

86 
86 
86 
86 

87 

80 

88 

104 
89 
53 
51 

128 
89 

33 

107 


Preston,  Harriet  Waters,  .     .     . 
Prime,  The  Rev.  Samuel  Irenteus, 
Prince  Yousuf  and  the  Alcayde,  see 

Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse,    . 
Procter,  Adelaide  Anne,    .     . 
Procter,  Bryan  Waller,      .     .     . 
Proctor,   Lewis  B.,   Letter  from,  see 
Burr,  Aaron, 

Letter   to    James   F.    Gluck,    see 

Cooper,  James  Fenimore,    . 

Psychometry,  see  Pierpont,  The  Rev 

John, 

Puck,  see  Cone,  Helen  Gray, 
Pugh,  Sarah, 


PAGE 

90 

90 

29 
90 
91 

17 

28 

87 
26 
91 


VjJUARLES,  Francis,  Extracts  from 
his  writings,  see  Thoreau,  Henry 
David, 113 

Queen's  wake.  The,  see  Hogg, 
James, 56 

Questions,  see  Thaxter,  Celia  Laigh- 
lon, 113 

Qui  judicatis  terram,  see  Ruskin, 
John 98 

rVAME,  Louise  de  la,  ....  91 
Read,  Thomas  Buchanan,      ...       91 

Reade,  Charles, 91 

Recognition,    see    Gilder,     Richard 

Watson, 44 

Reconstruction,  Letters  on,  see  Sum- 
ner, Charles, 110 

Reflective  retrospect.  A,  by  John  G. 

Saxe,  see  Warren,  Joseph,  .     .     .     130 

Reid,  Whitelaw, 92 

Representative   men,    see   Emerson, 

Ralph  Waldo, 39 

Retrospect,  see  Coolbrith,  Ina  Donna,  28 
Rhyme   of    John    Paul    Jones,    see 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend,  .  116 
Richter,  Jean  Paul  Friedrich,  .  .  92 
Ride   of  Collins   Graves,    The,    see 

O'Reilly,  John  Boyle,  ....  81 
Ringgold,   Captain    Samuel,   Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     .     .     128 


144 


INDEX 


I'AGE 

Robertson,  William, 92 

Robin   shure   in   hairst,    see  Burns, 

Robert, 16 

Robinson,  T.,  and  Sons,   Letter  to, 

see  Edgeworth,  Maria,  ....  38 
Rock     beside     the     sea.     The,    see 

Hemans,  Felicia  Dorothea,  .  .  54 
Rodgers,  Admiral  Christopher  Ray- 
mond   Perry,     Letter    to    Barry, 

Gen.  William  F., 128 

Rodman,    Gen.    Thomas   Jefferson, 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  128 
Roge,    Charlotte    Fiske,   see   Bates, 

Charlotte  Fiske, 3 

Rogers,  Samuel, 96 

Rohlfs,  Anna  Katharine  Green,  .  96 
Rohlfs,    Mrs.    Charles,   see    Rohlfs, 

Anna  Katharine  Green,  ...  96 
Roman    singer,    A,    see    Crawford, 

Francis  Marion, 30 

Rossetti,  Dante  Charles  Gabriel,  .  96 
Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,  ....  97 
Rufus  Impey  and  the  sporting  party, 

see  Strickland,  Agnes 109 

Ruskin,  John, 97 

Russia  and  England,  see  Gladstone, 

William  Ewart, 45 

OACKVILLE,  Charles,  see  Dorset, 

Earl  of, 34 

Saint  Pierre,  Jacques  Henri  Bernar- 

din  de, 98 

Sainte-Beuve,  Charles  Augustin,       .       98 
Sala,  George  Augustus  Henry,    .     .       98 
Sanborn,  The  Rev.  Franklin  Benja- 
min,   99 

Sand,  Karl  Ludwig,  Newspaper 
cuttings  concerning,  see  Kotze- 
bue,  August  Friedrich  Ferdinand 

von, 66 

Sands,  Rear- Admiral  Joshua  Ratoon, 

Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     128 
Savage,  The  Rev.  Minot  Judson,     .        99 
Savoir  c'est  pardonner,  see  WOolsey, 
Sarah  Chauncey, 124 


FACE 

Saxe,  John  Godfrey, 99 

A  reflective  retrospect,  see  War- 
ren, Joseph, 130 

Schofield,    Gen.     John    McAllister, 

Letter   to    Barry,    Gen.    William 

F., 128 

School  of  long  ago.  A,  see  Eggles- 

ton,  Edward, 38 

Schurz,  Carl,  Letter  to  Barry,  Gen. 

William  F., 128 

Scott,  Sir  Walter, 99 

Death  of,  see  Lytton,  Baron,  .  .  73 
Scudder,  Horace  Elisha,  ....  100 
Sedgwick,  Catherine  Maria,  .  .  .  100 
Sedgwick,    Gen.    John,    Letter    to 

Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  .  .  .  128 
Sermons  by 

Beecher,  The  Rev.  Henry  Ward, 
see  Corning,  The  Rev.  J. 
Leonard, 128 

Brooks,  The  Rev.  Phillips,      .     .         9 

Chapin,  The  Rev.  Edwin  Hub- 
bell,    20 

Clarke,  The  Rev.  James  Freeman,        21 

King,  The  Rev.  Thomas  Starr,    .       66 

Parker,  The  Rev.  Theodore,  .     .       82 

Sanborn,  The  Rev.  Franklin  Ben- 
jamin,       99 

Savage,  The  Rev.  Minot  Judson,  99 
Seward,  William  Henry,    ....     101 

Commission  signed  by,  see  New 
York  State, 80 

Letter  from,  see  Norton  collec- 
tion,     130 

Seymour,  Horatio,   Letter  from,  see 

Norton  collection, 130 

Sharpe,     Mary,     Letter     to,    from 

Rogers,  Samuel, 96 

Shaw,  Henry  Wheeler,  ....  101 
She  is  all  heart,  see  Hood,  Thomas,  57 
Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe 101 

Arietta  for  music,  see  Fields, 
James  Thomas, 41 

Lecture    on,    see    Fields,    James 

Thomas, 40 

Shenstone,  William, 101 


145 


INDEX 


Sheridan,  Gen.  Philip,  Letter  to 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,     . 

Sherman,  Frank  Dempster,    . 

Sherman,  John,  Letter  to  Barry, 
Gen.  William  F., 

Sherman,  Gen.  William  Tecum- 
seh.  Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  Wil- 
liam Y., 

Sherman,  Mrs.  William  Tecumseh, 
Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 

Shobert,  William,  Letter  to,  from 
Landon,  Letitia  Elizabeth, 

Sigourney,  Lydia  Huntley, 

Silent  south.  The,  see  Cable,  George 
Washington, 

Sill,  Edward  Rowland 

Simms,  William  Gilmore, 

Sing,  gondolier  !  see  Hemans,  Feli- 
cia Dorothea,        

Sister  Dorothy,  see  Fawcett,  Edgar, 

Skylark,  To  an  English,  see  Thomp- 
son, Maurice, 

Slick,  Sam,  see  Haliburton,  Thomas 
Chandler, 

Slocum,  Gen.  Henry  Warner,  Letter 
to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 

Small  ey,  George  Washburne, 

Smith,  Gerrit, 

Smith,  Horatio, 

Smith,  The  Rev.  Samuel  Francis,    . 

Smith,  T.  Guilford,  Gift  of  ms.,     . 

Smith,  William,  Letter  to,  from 
Robertson,  William,       .... 

Snowstorm,  The,  see  Litchfield, 
Grace  Denio 

Society  in  the  new  south,  see 
Warner,  Charles  Dudley,    .     .     . 

Some  day  of  days,  see  Perry,  Nora, 

Some  testimony  in  the  case,  see 
Davis,   Rebecca  Blaine  Harding, 

Song  of  content.  A,  see  Piatt,  John 
James, 

Song  of  the  mockingbird.  A,  see 
Thompson,  Maurice,      .... 

Songs  for  evening  music,  see  He- 
mans,  Felicia  Dorothea,     .     .     . 


128 
102 

128 

128 

128 

69 
102 

18 
102 
102 


54 
40 

113 

50 

128 
103 
103 
104 
104 
130 

92 

71 

118 

85 

31 

86 

113 

54 


104 
130 
105 
105 
106 


106 


Songs   of  the    sunland,    see   Miller, 

Cincinnatus  Hiner, 76 

Sophie's  secret,  see  Alcott,    Louisa 

May, 1 

Southey,  Caroline  Anne  Bowles,     .      104 
Southey,   Robert, 104 

Letter  to,  from  Ticknor,  George,  114 
Southey,  Mrs.  Robert,  see  Southey, 

Caroline  Anne  Bowles,  .... 
South  worth,  M.  M.,  Gift  of  ms.,  . 
Sparks,  The  Rev.  Jared,  .... 
Spinner,  Francis  Elias,  .... 
Spoflford,  Harriet  Elizabeth  Prescott, 
Spofford,  Mrs.  Richard  S.,  see  Spof- 

ford,     Harriet      Elizabeth      Pres- 
cott,         -     .     . 

Stael-Holstein,    Anne    Louise   Ger- 

maine  Necker, 106 

Stage  Rosalinds,  see  White,  Richard 

Grant, 121 

Stanton,  Edwin  McMasters,   Letter 

to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,  .  .  128 
Stanton,  Elizabeth  Cady,  ....  106 
Stanton,  Mrs.  Henry  B. ,  see  Stanton, 

Elizabeth  Cady, 106 

Stirling,  Miss,  Letter  to,  from  Ossoli, 

Sarah  Margaret  Fuller,  ...  81 
Stirling,  James  Hutchison,  .  .  .  106 
Stockton,  Francis  Richard,  .  .  .  107 
Stoddard,  Charles  Warren,  .  .  .  107 
Stoddard,  Richard  Henry,  .  .  .  107 
Stoddard,  William  Osborn,    ...      107 

Stone,  Lucy, 107 

Stoned  by  a  mountain,  see  Kingsley, 

Rose  Georgina 66 

Story,  William  Wetmore 108 

Story  with  a  hero,    A,  see  McKay, 

James  T., 75 

Stowe,  Harriet  Elizabeth  Beecher,  .     108 

Strickland,  Agnes, 108 

Summer   flies,   see   Gosse,    Edmund 

William, 46 

Sumner,  Charles, 109 

Letter  from,  see  Norton  collection,     130 

Letter  introducing  him  to  Robert 
Southey,  see  Ticknor,  George,  .     114 


146 


INDEX 


Sunset  walk,  A,  see  Channing,   The 
Rev.  William  Ellery 20 

Swartwout,  Samuel,  Commission  as 
Collector    of    the    customs,     see 

Jackson,  Andrew, G2 

also  Taney,  Roger  Brooke,       .     .     Ill 


1  ANEY,  Roger  Brooke,      .     ,     .     Ill 
Taylor,  Bayard, Ill 

Letter   to,     from    Fields,    James 

Thomas, 40 

Taylor,  The  Rev.  Jeremy,     .     .     .     Ill 
Taylor,  The  Rev.  John,   Letter  to, 

from  Johnson,  Dr.  Samuel,  .  .  65 
Tenement-house  fire.  The,  j^t^Ward, 

Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,  ...  117 
Tennyson,  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson,  112 
Thanksgiving  Day  proclamation,  see 

Cleveland,  Grover, 23 

Thaxter,  Celia  Laighton 112 

Thaxter,     Mrs.     Levi    Lincoln,    sec 

Thaxter,  Celia  Laighton,  .  .  .  112 
Theocritus,  see  Fields,  Annie  Adams,  40 
Theory  of   insanity.   A,  see  Harris, 

William  Torrey 51 

Theses     qujedam     theologicce,     see 

Lamb,  Charles, 67 

Thomas,  Edith  Matilda 113 

Thompson,  Maurice, 113 

Thoreau,  Henry  David,     .     .     .     .     113 

Letter  from,  see  Norton  collection,  130 
Thorpe,     Mrs.     Edmund     C,     see 

Thorpe,  Rose  Hartwick,     .     .     .     113 
Thorpe,  Rose  Hartwick,  ....     113 
Throop,  Enos  Thompson,  Commis- 
sion   signed    by,    see    New   York 

State, 80 

Through  the  trees,  see  Rohlfs,  Anna 

Katharine  Green, 96 

Thwaites,  Reuben  Gold,    ....     130 

Ticknor,  George, 114 

Ticknor  &  Fields,  Letters  to,   from 

Brown,  Dr.  John, 9 

Hamilton,    James   Alexander,  see 
Hamilton,  Alexander,     ...       .50 


Till   the    day    dawn,    see  Woolsey, 

Sarah  Chauncey,        124 

Tilton,  Theodore, 115 

Letters  to,  from 

Ames,  Mary  Clemmer,    ...  2 

Anthony,  Susan  Brownell,   .     .  2 

Bigelow,  John, 5 

Blaine,  James  Gillespie,       .     .  G 

Bowen,  Henry  Chandler,     .     .  7 

Bright,  John, 8 

Browning,  Elizabeth  Barrett,    .  10 

Browning,   Robert,     ....  14 

Gary,  Phcebe, 20 

Chase,  Salmon  Portland,      .     .  20 

Child,  Lydia  Maria  Francis,     .  21 

Collyer,  The  Rev.  Robert,  .     .  26 
Conway,    The    Rev.     Moncure 

Daniel, 27 

Cook,  Clarence  Chatham,    .     .  28 

Curtis,  George  William,       .     .  30 

Dickinson,  Anna  Elizabeth,      .  33 

Dodge,  Mary  Abby,  ....  34 

Douglass,  Frederick,       .     .      •  35 

Field,  Mary  Katherine  Kemble,  40 

Fields,  James  Thomas,   ...  40 
Frothingham,    The    Rev.    Oc- 

tavius  Brooks, 43 

Godwin,  Parke, 46 

Greeley,  Horace, 48 

Hay,  Col.  John, 53 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentwortli,  55 

Hooker,  Isabella  Beecher,   ,     .  57 

Lippincott,  Sarah  Jane  Clarke,  71 

Marble,  Manton, 75 

Mott,  Lucretia  Coffin,     ...  78 

Parton,  Sarah  Payson  Willis,  .  83 

Phillips,  Wendell,       ....  85 

Pillsbury,  Parker, 87 

Prime,  The  Rev.  Samuel  Iren- 

ceus, 90 

Reid,  Whitelaw, 92 

Smalley,  George  Washburne,  .  103 

Smith,  Gerrit, 103 

Stanton,  Elizabeth  Cady,     .     .  106 

Stone,  Lucy 108 

Stowe,  Harriet  Elizabeth  Beecher,  108 


147 


INDEX 


Tilton,  Theodore,  Letters  to,  from 

Sumner,  Charles, 

Watterson,  Henry,     .... 

White,  Horace, 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf,    .     . 

Wilson,   Henry, 

Yoimg,  John  Russell, 
Tivoli,  A  day  at,  see  Stowe,  Harriet 

Elizabeth  Beecher, 

To  an  English  skylark,  see  Thomp- 
son, Maurice, 

To   fame,    see   Blackmore,    Richard 

Doddridge, 

To    fame,    see  Hunt,   James   Henry 

Leigh, 

To  mistress  Bessie,  by  Eugene  Field, 

see  Weil,  Dr.  Charles,    .... 

To  spring,  see  Blessington,  Countess 

of, 

To   the   poetess,  see   Fields,   Annie 

Adams 

Tokens,  see  Woolsey,  Sarah  Chaun- 

cey, 

Tompkins,    Daniel     D.,     Commis- 
sion signed  by,  see   New  York 

State 

Letter   from,    see   Norton    collec- 
tion,     

Top  of  the  ladder.  The,  see  Litch- 
field, Grace  Denio, 

Tredgold,  John  H.,  Letter  to,  from 

Webster,  Daniel, 

Trenchard,  Admiral  Stephen  Deca- 
tur, Letter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William 

F., 

Trollope,  Anthony, 

Trouble  on  Lost  Mountain,  see  Har- 
ris, Joel  Chandler, 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend,     .     . 
Triibner,  Mr. ,  Letter  to,  from  Eliot, 

George, 

Tryst,  A,  see  Thaxter,  Celia  Laigh- 

ton, 

Tapper,  Martin  Farquhar,     .     . 
Letter   to,    from    Tennyson,    Al- 
fred  


109 
119 
120 
122 
123 
126 

108 

113 

5 

60 

131 

6 

40 

124 

80 
130 

71 
120 


128 
115 


51 
116 


39 


113 
116 


112 


Turgenieff,     Ivan,      Essay     on,     see 

James,  Henry, 62 

Turner,  John  Mallord  William,  .  117 
Twain,  Mark,  see  Clemens,   Samuel 

Langhorne, 22 

Two    destinies,     The,     see    Collins, 

William  Wilkie, 26 

Two    heads    better    than    one,    see 

Bates,  Charlotte  Fiske,  ....  4 
Two  Sicilies,  The,  see  Hamilton,  Sir 

William, 50 

Tyrant  Tacy,  see  Perry,  Nora,     .      .        85 


U 


NCLE  Esek's  wisdom,  see  Shaw, 
Henry  Wheeler, 101 

Underwood,  Francis  H.,  Comment 
on  mss.  of  Representative  men, 
see  Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,     .     .       39 

United  States,  History  of  the  peo- 
ple of  the,  see  McMaster,  John 
Bach, 75 

Upton,  Gen.  Emory,  Letter  to 
Barry,  Gen.  William  F.,    .     .     .     128 


VAN    BUREN,   Martin,   Commis- 
sion signed  by,  see  New  York 

State, 80 

Letter  from,    see   Norton    collec- 
tion,     130 

Vernes,     Jacob,      Letter     to,     from 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,     ...       97 
Violet,    A,    see    Whitney,     Adeline 

Dutton  Train, 121 

Voltaire,  Francois  Marie  Arouet  de,     117 


W. 


ALLACE,  Gen,  Lew.,     ...     117 
Wallack,  Lester,  his  ancestry,  train- 
ing and  career,  see  Winter,  Wil- 
liam,        124 

Ward,  Artemus,  see  Browne,  Charles 

Farrar, 10 

Ward,  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,  .     .     117 


148 


INDEX 


Ward,  Mrs.    Herbert  Dickinson,  see 

Ward,  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,   .  117 

Warner,  Charles  Dudley,  .     .     .     .  118 

Warner,  Susan, 118 

Warren,  Joseph,  Gift  of  ms.,       .     .  130 
Washburne,  Elihu  Benjamin,  Letter 

from,  see  Norton  collection,     .     .  130 

Washington,  George, 118 

Life  of,  see  Irving,  Washington,   .  (il 

Watterson,  Henry 119 

Watts,  The  Rev.  Isaac,     ....  119 
Webster,   Benjamin,   Letters  to,  see 

Reade,  Charles, 91 

Webster,   Daniel, 120 

Letter    from,   see   Norton    collec- 
tion,      130 

Webster,  Hetcher,  Letter  from,  see 

Norton  collection, 130 

Weil,  Dr.  Charles,  Gift  of  ms.,  .     .  131 
Wetherell,    Elizabeth,    see   Warner, 

Susan, 118 

Whipple,  Edwin  Percy,     .     .     .     .  120 

White,  Horace, 120 

White,  Richard  Grant,       ....  120 

Whitman,  W^alt, 121 

Whitney,  Adeline  Dutton  Train,     .  121 
Whitney,    Mrs.    Seth   D.,  see  Whit- 
ney, Adeline  Dutton  Train,      .     .  121 
Whittier,  John  Greenleaf,       .     .     .  121 
Wilkeson,  John,  Gift  of  mss.,    .     .  131 
Wilkeson,  Judge  Samuel,  Letter  to, 
from  De  Witt  Clinton,  see  Wilke- 
son, John, 131 

Williams,    D.    IL,    Letter    to,    from 

Percival,  James  Gates,  ....  84 
Williams,   W.    S.,    Letter  to,    from 

Bronte,  Charlotte, 8 

Willis,     Nathaniel     Parker,     Letter 

from,  see  Norton  collection,       .  130 
Chapter    on,    see    Wilson,    Gen. 

James  Grant, 123 

Willow  song,   see   Hemans,    Felicia 

Dorothea, 54 

Wilson,  Effingham,   Letter  to,  from 

Godwin,  William, 46 

W^ilson,  Francis, 131 


Wilson,  Henry, 123 

Wilson,  Gen.  James  Grant,     .      .      .      123 

Letter    to,    from   Grant,    Ulysses 

Simpson, 47 

Winsor,  Justin, 123 

Winter,  William, 124 

Winter    neighbors,    see    Burroughs, 

John,      

Winthrop   papers,    Review    of,    see 

Lowell,  James  Russell, 
Woman  suffrage,  see 

Higginson,   Thomas  Wentworth, 

Mott,  Lucretia  Coffin,    . 

Ram6,  Louise  de  la,       ... 

Stanton,  Elizabeth  Cady,  .  . 
Wood,  The  Rev.  John  George,  . 
Woodbury,  Levi,  Letter  to  P.  D.  A 

Parks  and  M.  M.   Southworth,  see 

Southworth,  M.  M.,  ... 
Woodnotes  from  a  cage,  see  Cone, 

Helen  Gray, 

Woolsey,  Sarah  Chauncey,     .     . 
Woolsey,  Theodore  Dwight,  .     . 
Words,  see  Dodge,  Mary  Abby, 
Wordsworth,  William,       .     .     . 
World   before   the   flood.    The,    se 

Montgomery,  James,  ... 
Worth,  Gen.  William  Jenkins,  Let 

ter  to  Barry,  Gen.  William  F., 
Wright,    Silas,    Commission   signed 

by,  see  New  York  State,  .  . 
Wycombe,    Lord,    Letter   to,     from 

Bentham,  Jeremy 


17 


72 


78 

91 

106 

124 


130 

26 
124 
124 

33 
125 

77 

128 

80 


80 


54 


I ATES,  Joseph    C,    Commission 

signed  by,  see  New  York  State,    , 
Ye  are  not  missed,   fair  flowers,  see 

Hemans,  Felicia  Dorothea,     .     . 
Young,  Brigham,  Promissory    note, 

see  Wilkeson,  John 131 

Young,    John,    Commission    signed 

by,  see  New  York  State,     ...       80 

Young,  John  Russell, 126 

Young  love  is  lord,  see  Cheney,  John 

Vance, 21 


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